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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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

No one’s serious at seventeen.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

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