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

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

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

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

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

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

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

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

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.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.