all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest (or meanest), a
cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind,
into life, and, still more, into ourselves, suffering is
requisite.--_Richter._

Count up man's calamities and who would seem happy? But in truth,
calamity leaves fully half of your life untouched.--_Charles Buxton._

~Age.~--Wrinkles are the tomb of love.--_Sarros in._

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o'
working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the
withered tree.--_George Eliot._

Autumnal green.--_Dryden._

Ye old men, brief is the space of life allotted to you; pass it as
pleasantly as ye can, not grieving from morning till eve. Since time
knows not how to preserve our hopes, but, attentive to its own concerns,
flies away.--_Euripides._

The Grecian ladies counted their age from their marriage, not their
birth.--_Homer._

The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too; and as it is the
unfittest time to learn in, so the unfitness of it to unlearn will be
found much greater.--_South._

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for
things a long way off.--_George Eliot._

Serene, and safe from passion's stormy rage, how calm they glide into
the port of age!--_Shenstone._

Providence gives us notice by sensible declensions, that we may
disengage from the world by degrees.--_Jeremy Collier._

Age oppresses by the same degrees that it instructs us, and permits not
that our mortal members, which are frozen with our years, should retain
the vigor of our youth.--_Dryden._

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the
contempt inspired by vice, for age whitens only the hair.--_J. Petit
Senn._

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age
she has only forty winters.--_Arsene Houssaye._

I love everything that's old. Old friends, old times, old manners, old
books, old wine.--_Goldsmith._

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.--_J. Petit Senn._

There are two things which grow stronger in the breast of man, in
proportion as he advances in years: the love of country and religion.
Let them be never so much forgotten in youth, they sooner or later
present themselves to us arrayed in all their charms, and excite in the
recesses of our hearts an attachment justly due to their
beauty.--_Chateaubriand._

~Agitation.~--Agitation is the marshali