Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
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The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
[Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in
parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of read more

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

You're never too old to become younger

You're never too old to become younger

Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
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Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.