When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn the way from them.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Few people know how to be old.

Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.