“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating”

“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped”

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old”

“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success”

“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. ”