"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams" — John Barrymore

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

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

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Source: Artemis to Actaeon, Vesalius in Zante (1909)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Source: La Saisiaz (1878)

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

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Source: Walden (1854)

John Barrymore Quote