Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Youth
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The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself ... The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
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All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.