“345. He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.”

— George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633

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