Age

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from death

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains

Youth comes but once in a lifetime

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day

The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship

In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course