Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.