“Youth is fair, a graceful stag,
Leaping, playing in a park.
Age is gray, a toothless hag,
Stumbling in the dark.”

“Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?”

“People my age all flocked to see Jeff, you know. Because we were so, just to hear that voice again. He would have been so pissed off with it by now. All these old toothless hags hanging around the stage door you know. He was just shit hot, I gotta say.”

“A young soul in my ageing body […]
Hard biter in a toothless mouth is she.”

“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.”

“A great leap in the dark”

“The human heart to youth is a fairy-land of adventure, to old age it is a sitting room where one knows his way in the dark.”

“I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.”

“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”