Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

True happiness springs from moderation.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.