Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
My father used to say superior people never make long visits.
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.