Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 128:2

Happy shalt thou be. Mr. Disraeli puts these remarkable words into the mouth of one of his characters: —"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret." A sad and Cheerless view of life's progress that! It may be true, in measure, of a life separated from godliness; it certainly is not true of a life allied with godliness. Let there be "life and godliness", and then youth is not a blunder, but a wise purpose and a glowing hope; manhood is not a struggle only, but a conquest and a joy; old age is not a regret, but a rich memory and a glorious prospect. —R. P. Macmaster, in "The Baptist Magazine," 1878.