"Live your life and forget your age."
"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."
"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
