“Old age either transfigures or stultifies.”

“Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.”

“Respect old age!”

“Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
Old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”

“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”

“Old age is second childhood.”

“Grief is half of old age.”

“Old age heals and cripples.”

“The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.”