“When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.”

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”

“Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.”

“It is not because Angels are Holier than Men or Devils that makes them Angels but because they do not Expect Holiness from one another but from God only”

“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”

“When nations grow old,
the Arts grow cold,
And Commerce settles on every tree:
And the poor and the old
Can live upon gold,
For all are born poor.
              Aged sixty-three.”

“When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register. ”

“The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.”

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

“Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.”