The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.