But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.