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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.