I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. 

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.