Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

a poverty-ridden old age.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.