“There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alice, or The Mysteries (1838), Book V, Ch. 1

About Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1803 – 1873

English novelist and politician, author of "The Last Days of Pompeii".

“All doubt is cowardice—all trust is brave.”

“Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.”

“Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.”

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.”

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.”

“Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”