“These are the effect of doting age; vain doubts, and idle cares, and over-caution.”
Tag: age
Arnold, Matthew (1822-88)
Bonstetten, Carl Victor de (1735-1842)
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carrol
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose –
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790)
"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."