“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ”

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever”

“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”

“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age”

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