The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell.
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
I called his broken promise heartbreaking, and he called it growing up. Oh, that’s mature—blame it on maturity.
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.