A desire to live long is the wish of all the human species. Thus; all hope for themselves a long life and that their age will be attracted with tranquility and comfort; but few think that a happy old age depends entirely upon a well spent youth. If we have been dissipated and profligate in our earlier years it would be almost improbable for us to be happy in after years. The life of man is a building. Youth is the foundation of habits, disposition and knowledge. Middle life and age must finish the structure, and we all know that no good edifice of moral or material can be revised on a faulty foundation. Children who have not availed themselves of the first rudiments of learning in their infancy when they could as well as not are held in contempt by children who have played less and learned more; It is a great mistake to think that diversion should form the business of life, it is well enough in its place. But when it becomes the business of life, it is no longer diversion. and lastly the infirmities of age, want the reflections of a well spent youth to comfort and solace them.
Thus, a misspent youth is sure to make a miserable and contemptible old age.