Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
Age whitens hairs, but not sin.
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.