To Confess Ignorance Is Often Wiser Than

As It Can Be Maintained That All The Great Advances Have Come From Men Under Forty, So The History Of The World Shows That A Very Large Proportion Of The Evils May Be Traced To The Sexagenarians, Nearly All The Great Mistakes Politically And Socially, All Of The Worst Poems, Most Of The Bad Pictures, A Majority Of The Bad Novels And Not A Few Of The Bad Sermons And Speeches.

Nothing Will Sustain You More Potently Than The Power To Recognize In Your Humdrum Routine, As Perhaps It May Be Thought, The True Poetry Of Life.

Fed On The Dry Husks Of Facts, The Human Heart Has A Hidden Want Which Science Cannot Supply.

Engrossed Late And Soon In Professional Cares, Getting And Spending, You May May So Lay Waste Your Powers That You May Find, Too Late, With Hearts Given Away, That T Here Is No Place In Your Habit-stricken Souls For Those Gentler Influences Which Make Your Life Worth Living.

The Uselessness Of Men Above Sixty Years Of Age And The Incalculable Benefit It Would Be In Commercial, In Political, And In Professional Life, If As A Matter Of Course, Men Stopped Work At This Age.