Joseph Joubert Age Quotations

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.