So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.