“Age, like distance lends a double charm”

“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable”

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course”

“The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others. ”

“A woman's always younger than a man at equal years”

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”