“ You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. ”

“ A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ”

“ Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ”

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

“ If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. ”

“ It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. ”