“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever
“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
“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
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young