Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.--SHAKESPEARE.

Few people know how to be old.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.--SWIFT.

The defects of the mind, like those of the countenance, increase with
age.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and
comfort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.--ADDISON.

Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the
distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our
enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before us.--RICHTER.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest
thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
--H.W. SHAW.


AMBITION.--Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.--LONGFELLOW.

He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find
The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,