Youth

The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmask her beauty to the moon; Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes; The canker galls the infants of the spring Too oft before their buttons be disclos’d, And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season— delightful if it happen to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes.

I saw young Harry, with his beaver on.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol’n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year.

Zeal, n . A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.

The deepest definition of Youth is Life as yet untouched by tragedy.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.