It is customary to say that age should be considered, because it comes last. It seems just as much to the point, that youth comes first.
人们惯常说,应该顾及老年,因为它在最后到来;但青春最先到来,似乎也是同样切题的理由。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Crabbed Age and Youth —