Alexander Hamilton on age

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Jack Benny1894–1974Often credited to Mark Twain