“He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: examples presented themselves to his mind, not only of mental decay, physical weakness, gout, stone and rheumatism, but of boastful mendacious garrulity, intense and peevish… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
