“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”
“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
“Your old men shall dream dreamsyour young men shall see visions.”