Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
Anne BradstreetWe must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
Anne BradstreetTo sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.
Anne Bradstreet