“At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.”– Benjamin Franklin Related Quotes “You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”– Pearl S. Buck “The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.”– Lascelles Abercrombie “The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”– H. L. Mencken