"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. . .I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell m any thing, to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail to me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to relfect that this my Mentors said nothing about."
"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of any thing, it is very likely to be my good behavior."
(This could've been my senior quote.)
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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