“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death
“Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives