A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of read more

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know read more

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make read more

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.

We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.