In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
Edward YoungIn youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
Edward YoungThere is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Edward Young