There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another until he finds his own.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

... the peak age when the ear of experience had already ripened and yet the stem of energy is still strong.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Youth must have its fling.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.