Quote from my reading:
‘”Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.” Teenagers think they are bullet-proof and don’t know that a man reaps what he sows. Someone has to tell them that grass grows up, not down, so that they can know when to roll their eyes.’
- Douglas Wilson from Beyond Stateliest Marble: The Passionate Femininity of Anne Bradstreet