“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”

“Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.”

“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”

“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”

“Now such an one for daughter Creon had
As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.”

“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”

“The Republican party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.”

“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”