Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.
At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkl...
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo’ young girl days to spend wid me.