“It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable
“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be
“Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising it