"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"

"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out"