Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
The storms of youth occur between days of brilliant sunshine.
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Youth must be mastered not by force but by reason.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Youth has no age.
It takes a long time to become young.
I nothing had, and yet enough for youth - Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion, - O, give me back my youth again!
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
What youth found and must find outside, the man of life's afternoon must find within himself.
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Those were the days, my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way
When the older generation makes mistakes, the younger learns a bad lesson.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
If youth knew if age could.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
