That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

He was at the height of his maturity. … It’s not just a depiction of him as an artist, it’s more of a psychological portrayal of him — his difficult and somewhat turbulent character, …...

So remember those who win the gameLose the love they sought to gainIn debitures of quality and dubious integrityTheir small-town eyes will gape at youIn dull surprise when payment dueExceeds accounts received at seventeen

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these...

Mrs. Allan’s face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient...

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Once we’re at the stage of life where we can stand our own silence, where we’ve made peace with our past, where we’ve accepted and grown from its lessons, and we would like to share...

He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out–through error and through trial, through fantasy and...

Don’t restrain yourself to mundaneness. You’re subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.