Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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

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.

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

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

A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.

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

No one’s serious at seventeen.

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

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.