A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.