It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.[S’ils n’étaient pas ignorants et timides, le monde social serait impossible.]
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong.
