The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.