“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”

“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”

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

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

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter”

“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”