Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.