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

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

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

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

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

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

No one’s serious at seventeen.

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

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

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

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.

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.

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