“There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. ”

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course”

“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”

“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete”

“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many. ”