~ One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one. ~
~ A boy is a magical creature-you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. ~
~ Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ~
~ A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. ~
~ Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years. ~
~ The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different ~
~ Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. ~
~ The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders. ~
~ There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick. ~
~ When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. ~
~ The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven. ~
~ Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence. ~