Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

i. BACON ESSAY XLII. Of Youth and Age. Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

j. BEATTIE--The Minstrel. Bk. I. St. 25.

To resist with success, the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart; to keep these in parallel vigor, one must exercise, study and love. k. BONSTETTEN-In Abel Stevens' Madame de Stael. Ch. XXVI.

No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, For luxury and sloth had nourished none for him.

1. BRYANT-The Old Man's Funeral.