The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

The various aspects of decadence cannot be turned into functions of the economy and neither can they be grasped without relating them to this dynamic part of contemporary life.

The passing years steal from us one thing after another.

As favour and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Apples taste sweetest when they're going.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.