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

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope

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.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book