Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Boys are found everywhere — on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.