The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.

Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page, b

My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!

. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb; And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.

He has grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life. So that no wonder waits him.