As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.
Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.