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.

No one’s serious at seventeen.

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

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

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.