“I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.”

“Education is the best provision for the journey to old age ”

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing”

“It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.”

“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day”

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