Who said “Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do…”?

“Wrecked on the lee shore of age.”

“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”

“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”

“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”

“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”

“He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.”

“He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.”

“I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.”

“If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.”

“They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”

“Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!”