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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.