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

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.