Youth is always an enemy to the old.
What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.