“But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry,—A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.”

“Well, the old theory was "marry an older man because they're more mature". But the new theory is "men don't mature — marry a young one".”

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

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

“A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.”

“Time ripens all things. No man is born wise. Bishops are made of men and not of stones.”

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“"If you want to do something great in the world, do not get married, remain single… One may get married after he had accomplished something great in this world." Yet this great man who advised against marriage, was the happiest of men at the fireside of his family.”

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