"I delight in men over seventy. They..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.”

“I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.”

“How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, "How does love suit with age, Sophocles - are you still the man you were?" he replied, "Peace, most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master."”

“When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.”

“Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."”