The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours fore… - Louis L'Amour

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

To be a man was to be responsible. It was as simple as that. To be a man was to build something, to try to make the world about him a bit easier to live in for himself and those who followed.
You could sneer at that, you could scoff, you could refuse to acknowledge it, but when it came right down to it, Conn decided it was the man who planted a tree, dug a well, or graded a road who mattered.

Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking.