“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order”

“He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young”

“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”

“Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in both”

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel”

“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp”