To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Williston Fish

May we keep a little of the fuel of youth to warm our body in old age. – Minna Thomas Antrim, “To Harder Times,” A Book of Toasts, 1902

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the masters master, the genius of the age. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher