As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.