Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.