"Age, like distance lends a double charm" — Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart

Source: Emma (1815)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote