No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.

don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo’ young girl days to spend wid me.

Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart