“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing
“You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life
“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example
“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.
“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
“I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death
“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.
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough
“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old