Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

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

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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.