You may be growing up, or you may be growing down; and if you are doing both at once, then you are growing crooked.

There are people who are growing up in understanding, but down in goodness.

It is a beautiful fact, however, that you can't grow up in goodness and down in understanding; while the great probability is, that, if you are not growing better, you will by and by begin to grow stupid.

Those who are growing the right way, the more they understand, the more they wonder; and the more they learn to do, the more they want to do.

Willie was a boy of this kind.