Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.
Journal, 1864, in Linda Allardt et al. (eds.) 'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson' vol. 15, 1860-6 (1982) p. 428
