Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie - Age Quotes

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This is one of the advantages of middle age: people have got used to their bodies and to their faults; they know how to use them, to spare them, and they do not expect too much.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

The greatest minds, the most original, have the least stamp of the age, the most of that dominant natural reality which belongs to all great minds.... The clearest eyes must see by the light of their own hour.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

Sometimes winter days come in autumn, just as hours of old age and middle age seem to start out of their places in the due rotation of life.

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie