“We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age Are they withered in the sod?” AgeWaterCuttingAirChildhoodYouthPureSpringFairsSeedsSunnyInfancyWitheredMustardAlmondsSodMustard Seed Author:Charlotte Bronte
“A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.” IfsThinkingMenYearsLooksAgeYoungYouthFitSatisfactionFormerEnjoymentPleasantInfancyFormer Life Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.” YearsAgeLearningYouthOld AgeDryInfancyJuvenile Book:Bacon's Essays: Top Essays Source: Bacon's Essays: Top Essays
“Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” LifeHumansChildrenTwoAgeThreeSinChildhoodYouthPeriodsDefinitionsHuman LifeFollyRemoveManhoodRemorseInfancyChildhood MemoriesIdiocy Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary