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.

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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

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 one’s serious at seventeen.

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

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

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

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

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.