Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.
Fundamentally speaking, bodies age; feelings don't.
I believed that I could age people with my mind. If I looked at them, wrinkles would form, and if I looked away, they would suddenly, magically get younger.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
The worst old age is that of the mind.
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
