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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15].

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.

Young fellows will be young fellows.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. These laid the world away: poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene That men call age, and those who would have been Their sons, they gave their immortality.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs; But there are forms which Time to touch forbears. And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.

And both were young, and one was beautiful.

Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.