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For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, read more
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never read more
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.
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 is a period of missed opportunities.
Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
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Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away: poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene
That men call age, and those who would have been
Their sons, they gave their immortality.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.