The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.

Fond youth flatters itself that all must heed its prayer.

Youth is perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.