“At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.”– Benjamin Franklin Related Quotes “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”– Napoleon Hill “Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.”— Michel de Montaigne “GETTING KILLED BY TARTARUS didn’t seem like much of an honor. As Annabeth stared up at his dark whirlpool face, she decided she’d rather die in some less memorable way—maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good.”— Rick Riordan