“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever”

“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ”

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ”

“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come”

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”