“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped”

“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive”

“Some people reach the age of sixty before others”

“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me”

“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought”

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old”