Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

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.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.