“So much for youthful idealism.”
“There is so much adventure that only a youth can experience. Youth is not the time to languish in pleasure - youth is the time for exploration and adventure”
“Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?”
“God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!”
“Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.”
“If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.”