The twenties are the molding years when the young person forms those habits that will direct his career. Then he finishes his school work, stands before the altar, establishes a home, and looks the world in the face.
The thirties are the years of discouragement. It is a hard and trying time. It is a time of battle without the dreams and poetry of youth.
The forties are the years of vision, when a man finds himself, finishes his castles in the air, and knows the value of his dreams.
In the fifties life comes to ripening. These should be the years of jubilee, and a man should do his best work then.
At sixty, a man has committed enough mistakes to make him wise beyond his years. He should live better and do better work than in any other decade in his life. No man has a right to retire in the sixties; the world has a need for his wisdom.
And in the seventies, some of the best work in the world has been done. It is the time when talent, experience, and insight combine to make a worthy and memorable life. Psalm 90:10 says, “The days of our years are threescore and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is there strength, labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”