Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

One faces the future with one's past.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.