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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

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

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.