“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”

“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. ”

“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. ”