“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”

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

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

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

“Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life”

“May you live all the days of your life”