“When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.”
“The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.”
“And then again, I am no longer quite such a good-looking young fellow that tapestries leap off the wall in my honour.”
“There was a young lady from GloucesterWho complained that her parents both bossed her,So she ran off to Maine.Did her parents complain?Not at all -- they were glad to have lost her.”
“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”
“Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.”