“The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.”
“she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.”
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.”
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
“Just as youth is wasted on the young, money is wasted on the rich.”
“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”