It is folly to be youthful unless you are young.
An old man who indulges in love-making had better derive his pleasure from his own sentiments, than from the hope that they will be reciprocated.
“Old men become frivolous,” once said to me Weir Mitchell, poet, physician, philosophic observer of life. Yes, frivolous and sense-bound. Youth is earnest and spiritual, because it is sentient of creative force.
It is with health as with money; we wait till our stock is diminishing before we give it careful attention.