The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.