The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

The old Happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning, Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish nonsense, mixed in with essential truths, that the first duty of the adolescent who wants to be a healthy man is to disgorge it all.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

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