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

“From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. ”

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

“There's life in the old dog yet.”

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”

“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”