At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

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

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

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

Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Do not peer too far.

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.