There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon. - Willa Cather

It came over him now that the unexpected favours of fortune, no matter how dazzling, do not mean very much to us. They may excite or divert us for a time, but when we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

"I only want impossible things," she said roughly. "The others don't interest me."

Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet.