Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the chance without the capacity

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolish

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen