“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”
“He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.”
“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”
“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.”
“Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung;The world was very old indeed when you and I were young.”
“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.”