To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)
Diary (11 May 1875)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Adams specifies that he refers "only to the Roman of William of Lorris, which dates from the death of Queen Blanche and of all good things, about 1250". He describes the rather cynical continuation by Jean de Meung, about 1300, as "beyond our horizon".
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Context: Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
It is to old age that we look for reimbursement, the most of us. And most of us look in vain. For the most of us have been wrenched and racked, in one way or another, until old age is the most trying time of all.
In the Almost Perfect State every person shall have at least ten years before he dies of easy, carefree, happy living... things will be so arranged economically that this will be possible for each individual.
“Every age has its happiness and troubles.”
Source: Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years, 1998, p. 48: response to the question whether the birth of her daughter was the happiest time of her life
“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.
Canto III, l. 374
The Art of Poetry (1674)
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
“age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.”
Source: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”
"My Confession", p. 74. First published in two parts in The Reporter (December 22, 1953 and January 5, 1954)
On the Contrary: Articles of Belief 1946–1961 (1961)
“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
H 4
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)
