“John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”

“All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.”

“It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do. . .If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.”

“Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.”