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.