The Golden Age was never the present age.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Forewarn'd, forearm'd.
If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.