“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.”

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

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

“For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture." -Francis Bacon ”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.”