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

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

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less read more

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking read more

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning read more

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.