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

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

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

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

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.

Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.

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

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

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

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

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