“I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road”
“I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm ”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul”
“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive”
“Some people reach the age of sixty before others”