We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.
W. H. AudenThe countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. AudenI think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
W. H. Auden