“Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!”

“One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.”

“Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”

“As we age, we become more foolish and wiser.”

“Old age," she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough.”

“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”

“I believe that the want of our age is not more "free" handling of the Bible, but more "reverent" handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.”

“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”

“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”

“There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”