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.

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

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

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

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

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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

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