“The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
“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.
“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction
“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be