“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time”

“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. ”

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”

“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever”