“Inside an old man is always a young man, a young man shaped by his friends.”
“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”
“And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young man, for a man is always his father's child no matter how old he is or how long they have been apart.”
“Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.”
“Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?”
“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. ”