One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.

The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.