Autumn is really the best of the seasons: and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life. But of course, like Autumn, it doesn’t last.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]

Letter to Miss Jane Douglass (31 Oct 1963)

In W. H. Lewis, ed., The Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), final letter.