It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.
It takes a very long time to become young.[Lleva mucho tiempo llegar a ser joven.]
It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.[C’est le privilège de la jeunesse de croire et d’espérer ; mais les vieillards voient plus clairement la mort.]
It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the “merely-personal,” from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes and primitive feelings.
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.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.[S’ils n’étaient pas ignorants et timides, le monde social serait impossible.]
I think we are in a time where the youth play such a huge role. It’s up to us to go the extra mile to vote and raise our voices.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his Youth; and when wisdom was his, Youth would have been spent buying it.
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.
Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
