"Not only does beauty fade, but it..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.”

“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”

“Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.”

“Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!What a taskto askof anything, or anyone,yet it is ours,and not by the century or the year, but by the hours.”

“Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,But bad mortality o'ersways their power,How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”

“Every realm of nature is marvelous.”

“Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.”

“But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!”

“What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.”