Youth is a horrid period of life but luckily it passes. Happy, comfortable middle-age is the best—the prime period from 40 to 70.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, October 02, 2011
The Prime of Life
The Happiest Time of Life? reminded Ian Jackson of the following quotation by Mildred Darwin (née Massingberd), preserved in Margaret Keynes, Leonard Darwin: 1850-1943 (Cambridge: Privately printed at the University Press, 1943), p. 27: