“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”

“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol”

“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age”

“Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in both”

“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young”

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel”