“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.