"As a man grows older, his ability..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?”

“To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”

“Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.”

“I am in the prime of senility.”

“Habit is a form of exercise.”

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.”

“I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.”