• Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

    Henry David Thoreau: Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press