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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak read more
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
I was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
I was between
A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,
A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!
Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind read more
Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime
Youth comes but once in a lifetime
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies