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

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

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.

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 leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

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

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

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

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.

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

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

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