As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.