“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.