To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

- Benjamin Franklin -

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

- Leonardo da Vinci -

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

- Warren Buffett -

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

- Knute Nelson -

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

- Robertson Davies -