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

The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

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

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

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

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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

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

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

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

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