“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life ”

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

“Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years ”

“You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it”