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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.