• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

  Christian Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. tumultuous
2. happiness
3. favorable
4. enjoyment
5. fortunate
6. generous

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. by : Christian Nevell Bovee

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