“youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.”
“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”
“Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”
“One forgets so quickly one’s own youth…”
“He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.”
“The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!”