“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”

“Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”

“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”

“Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both.”

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”

“Young men," said Cæsar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”

“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”