“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable”

“Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit”

“There's life in the old dog yet.”

“Life is a flower of which love is the honey”

“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ”

“No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year”