To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were read more

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his read more

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

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

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

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never read more

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.

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.