Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ...

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Youth must have its fling.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

... the peak age when the ear of experience had already ripened and yet the stem of energy is still strong.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

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

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Youth lives on hopes, old age on remembrance.

It takes a long time to become young.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.