When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

When I was younger, I could remember anything whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying . . . soon I [won't] remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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

Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.

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

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.