There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
William HazlittDeath puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
William HazlittHappy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.
William HazlittIf our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
William Hazlitt