“Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.”

“Men! What do they know? They never grow up.”

“Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.”

“… most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”

“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

“In every young government strength is worth more than ancestral wisdom, but no government can remain young. As it grows older there is more respect for mature men than for old men. The leader who has build his career upon a basis of youth, loses youth. Like the old wolf, he tries to hide his disgrace; he keeps himself fit and affects the fearlessness and excess of a young man; but sooner or later time will make him a senator, then a corpse.”

“Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom
To believe in the good in man.”

“Learning should be a pleasure, and children should grow up to imagine wisdom with a smiling face, not a fierce and terrifying one.”

“Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?”