“The straightest way to the heart of old matters is an old letter.”

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

“No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.”

“I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel”

“To find accidently a handwritten letter of some old friend in a trunk. Ah, is this not happiness?”

“But the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old ones.”

“Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.”

“The emptiness of old age had caused him to forget that, in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.”

“The old murals came from the heart,” Zima said. “I painted on a huge scale because that was what the subject matter seemed to demand.”

“I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.”