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

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

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

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

Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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.

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

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

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

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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.