“With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.”

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.”

“As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she spends her time with people who are so much older than she, that she is never likely to meet a husband. And if she does, I do not know if she will wish to marry. She is too comfortable where she is. Her father is easy to please and she can do as she likes with the household. A husband will have his own views, and Emma is not likely to take to that way of living.”