There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. Charles-Augustin Sainte-BeuveagepeopleyouthfulnessCopy this quote
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.
“A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time