Who said “Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from…”?

“When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.”

“So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.”

“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”

“Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.”

“I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.”

“A book might be written on the injustice of the just.”

“Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.”

“You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.”