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

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

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

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

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

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.

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.