My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.