“Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.”

“I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.”

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

“People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. ”

“Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.”

“What then remains, but that we still should cryNot to be born, or being born, to die?”