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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

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

Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.

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

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. 

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

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