In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

—Jonathan Swift

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

—J. M. Barrie

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

—J. K. Rowling

Praise youth and it will prosper.

—J. K. Rowling

If youth only knew: if age only could.

—Herbert Henry Asquith