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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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.

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

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

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.