=Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you.= _Jesus to his disciples._
=Ye are the light of the world.= _Jesus to his
disciples._
=Ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with
you.= _Job._
=Ye are the salt of the earth.= _Jesus to his
disciples._
=Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and= 10
=swallow a camel.= _Jesus._
=Ye cannot serve God and mammon.= _Jesus._
=Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; / The
clouds ye so much dread / Are big with
mercy, and shall break / In blessings on
your head.= _Cowper._
=Ye gentlemen of England / That live at home
at ease, / Ah! little do you think upon / The
dangers of the seas.= _Martyn Parker._
=Ye gods, it doth amaze me / A man of such a
feeble temper should / So get the start of
the majestic world / And bear the palm
alone.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Ye good yeomen, whose limbs were made in= 15
=England.= _Hen. V._, iii. 1.
=Ye hae a stalk o' carl-hemp in you.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen
you.= _Jesus to his disciples._
=Ye mariners of England, / That guard our
native seas, / Whose flag has braved a
thousand years / The battle and the breeze.=
_Campbell._
=Ye may darken over the blue heavens, ye
vapoury masses in the sky. It matters not!
Beyond the howling of that wrath, beyond
the blackness of those clouds, there shines,
unaltered and serene, the moon that shone
in Paradise.... The moon that promises a
paradise restored.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the= 20
=face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal
frown, read in the everlasting book, wide
open to your view, the lesson it would teach.
Its pictures are not in black and sombre
hues, but bright and glowing tints; its
music--save when ye drown it--is not in
sighs and groans, but songs and cheerful
sounds. Listen to the million voices in the
summer air, and find one dismal as your
own.= _Dickens._
=Ye shall know them by their fruits.= _Jesus._
=Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!...
In our aspirations to be great, / Our destinies
o'erleap their mortal state, / And claim a
kindred with you; for ye are / A beauty and
a mystery, and create / In us such love and
reverence from afar, / That fortune, fame,
power, life, have named themselves a star.=
_Byron._
=Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg / The
murmur of the world.= _Tennyson._
=Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, / And
muckle they may grieve ye.= _Burns._
=Yea, let all good things await / Him who cares= 25
=not to be great, / But as he saves or serves
the state.= _Tennyson._
=Yea, surely the sea like a harper laid hand
on the shore as a lyre.= _Swinburne._
=Year chases year, decay pursues decay, / Still
drops some joy from withering life away.=
_Johnson._
=Years do not make sages; they only make
old men.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Years following years steal something every
day; / At last they steal us from ourselves
away.= _Pope._
=Years steal / Fire from the mind as vigour= 30
=from the limb, / And life's enchanted cup
but sparkles near the brim.= _Byron._
=Yes, there are things we must dream and
dare, / And execute ere thought be half
aware.= _Byron._
=Yes, you find people ready enough to do the
good Samaritan without the oil and twopence.=
_Sydney Smith._
=Yet a little while, and we shall all meet there,
and our Mother's bosom will screen us all;
and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip,
and all the Gehenna bailiffs that
patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot
harm us any more.= _Carlyle._
=Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, /
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word--Alone.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd, /= 35
=Than still contemn'd and flatter'd.= _King
Lear_, iv. 1.
=Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' the
milk o' human kindness.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing
purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men
are widen'd by the process of the suns.=
_Tennyson._
=Yet I've heard say, by wise men in my day, /
That none are outwitted so easy as they /
Who reckon with all men as if they suspect
them, / And traffic in caution, and watch to
detect them.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, /
The Scripture assures us the Lord will provide.=
_Newton._
=Yet taught by Time, my heart has learned to
glow / For other's good and melt at other's
woe.= _Pope._
=Yet there are surely times when there is
nought / So needed as unsettling, just to
get / Out of old ruts, and seek a nobler life.=
_Dr. W. Smith._
=Yet this grief / Is added to the griefs the great
must bear, / That howsoever much they may
desire / Silence, they cannot weep behind a
cloud.= _Tennyson._
=Yield not thy neck / To fortune's yoke, but
let thy dauntless mind / Still ride in triumph
over all mischance.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin; /= 5
=Each victory will help you some other to
win.= _H. M. Palmer._
=Yield to God's word and will, and you will
escape many a calamity.= _Spurgeon._
=Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.=
_Pr._
=Yielding, timid weakness is always abused and
insulted by the unjust and unfeeling; but
meekness, when sustained by the "fortiter
in re," is always respected, commonly successful.=
_Chesterfield._
=You accuse woman of wavering affection.
Blame her not; she is but seeking a constant
man.= _Goethe._
=You always aspire to very little at first, but= 10
=as you mount the ladder, you are sure to
look down upon what you formerly looked
up to as the height of happiness.= _Brothers
Mayhew._
=You always end ere you begin.= _Two Gent. of
Verona_, ii. 4.
=You are always willing enough to read lives,
but never willing to lead them.= _Ruskin._
=You are my true and honourable wife, / As
dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That
visit my sad heart.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=You are not very good if you are not better
than your best friends imagine you to be.=
_Lavater._
=You are obliged to your imagination for three-fourths= 15
=of your importance.= _Garrick._
=You are prosperous, you are great, you are
"beyond the world," as I have heard people
say, meaning the power or the caprice
thereof; but you are not beyond the power
of events.= _Disraeli to young men._
=You are to come to your study as to the table,
with a sharp appetite, whereby that which
you read may the better digest. He that
has no stomach to his book will very hardly
thrive upon it.= _Earl of Bedford._
=You are transported by calamity / Thither
where more attends you.= _Coriolanus_, i. 1.
=You arrive at truth through poetry, and I
arrive at poetry through truth.= _Joubert._
=You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; /= 20
=Knock as you please, there's nobody at
home.= _Pope._
=You begin in error when you suggest that we
should regard the opinion of the many about
just and unjust, good and evil, honourable
and dishonourable.= _Plato._
=You can easily ascertain= (_verstehen_) =what
comes from the heart, for what comes from
it in another's must go to your own.=
_Körner._
=You can imagine thistle-down so light that
when you run after it your running motion
would drive it away from you, and that the
more you tried to catch it the faster it would
fly from your grasp. And it should be with
every man, that, when he is chased by
troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher
and higher.= _Ward Beecher._
=You can never be wise unless you love reading.=
_Johnson._
=You can never by persistency make wrong= 25
=right.= _Johnson._
=You can speak well, if your tongue deliver the
message of your heart.= _John Ford._
=You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=You cannot abolish slavery by Act of Parliament,
but can only abolish the name of it,
which is very little.= _Carlyle._
=You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others
down.= _Pr._
=You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well= 30
=of thought there which has no bottom; the
more you draw from it, the more clear and
fruitful it will be.= _G. A. Sala._
=You cannot get anything out of Nature or from
God by gambling;--only out of your neighbour.=
_Ruskin._
=You cannot have the ware and the money both
at once; and he who always hankers for the
ware without having heart to give the money
for it, is no better off than he who repents
him of the purchase when the ware is in his
hands.= _Goethe._
=You cannot have your work well done if the
work be not of a right kind.= _Carlyle._
=You cannot hide any secret.= _Emerson._
=You cannot lead a fighting world without= 35
=having it regimented, chivalried; nor can
you any more continue to lead a working
world unregimented, anarchic.= _Carlyle._
=You cannot love the real sun, that is to say,
physical light and colour, rightly, unless you
love the spiritual sun, that is to say, justice
and truth, rightly.= _Ruskin._
=You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's
ear.= _Pr._
=You cannot push a man far up a tree.= _Pr._
=You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's
head; you must break it up, and give him
the crumb in warm milk.= _Spurgeon._
=You cannot rear a temple like a hut of sticks= 40
=and turf.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=You cannot save men from death but by facing
it for them, nor from sin but by resisting it
for them.= _Ruskin._
=You cannot secure even enjoyment in stagnation.=
_Mrs. Gatty._
=You can't be lost on a straight road.= _Pr._
=You can't "have" your pudding unless you
can "eat" it.= _Ruskin._
=You can't order remembrance out of a man's= 45
=mind.= _Thackeray._
=You can't see the wood for the trees.= _Pr._
=You can't tell a nut till you crack it.= _Pr._
=You complain of the difficulty of finding work
for your men; the real difficulty rather is to
find men for your work.= _Ruskin._
=You do not believe, you only believe that you
believe.= _Coleridge._
=You do not educate a man by telling him what
he knew not, but by making him what he
was not, and what he will remain for ever.=
_Ruskin._
=You don't value your peas for their roots or
your carrots for their flowers. Now that's
the way you should choose women.= _George
Eliot._
=You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; /
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart /
Is true as steel; leave you your power to
draw, / And I shall have no power to follow
you.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, ii. 2.
=You feel yourself an exile in the East; but in
the West too it is exile; I know not where
under the sun it is not exile.= _Carlyle to a
young friend._
=You find faut wi' your meat, and the faut's= 5
=all i' your own stomach.= _George Eliot._
=You find yourself refreshed by the presence of
cheerful people. Why not make earnest
effort to confer that pleasure on others?
You will find half the battle is gained if you
never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.=
_Mrs. L. M. Child._
=You frighten me out of my seven senses.=
_Swift._
=You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.=
_Pr._
=You give me nothing during your life, but you
promise to provide for me at your death.
If you are not a fool, you know what I
wish for.= _Martial._
=You have deserved / High commendation, true= 10
=applause and love.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=You have many enemies that know not / Why
they are so, but, like to village curs, / Bark
when their fellows do.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=You have no business with consequences; you
are to tell the truth.= _Johnson._
=You have no hold on a human being whose
affections are without a tap-root!= _Southey._
=You have not outgrown, you cannot outgrow,
the need of a great and authoritative teacher.=
_Joseph Anderson._
=You have scotched the snake, not killed him.= 15
_Macb._, iii. 2.
=You have too much respect upon the world; /
They lose it that do buy it with much care.=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=You knock a man into the ditch, and then you
tell him to remain content in the "position in
which Providence has placed him."= _Ruskin._
=You know how slight a line will tow a boat
when afloat on the billows, though a cable
would hardly move her when pulled up on
the beach.= _Scott._
=You know it is not my interest to pay the
principal, nor is it my principle to pay the
interest.= _Sheridan to a creditor of his._
=You know no rules of charity, / Which renders= 20
=good for bad, blessings for curses.= _Rich.
III._, i. 2.
=You know not where a blessing may light.= _Pr._
=You know that in everything women write
there are always a thousand faults of grammar,
but, with your permission, a harmony
which is rare in the writings of men.= _Mme.
de Maintenon._
=You lie nearest to the river of life when you
bend to it. You cannot drink but as you
stoop.= _J. H. Evans._
=You live one half year with deception and
art; / With art and deception you live
t'other part.= _It. Pr._
=You make but a poor trap to catch luck if you= 25
=go and bait it with wickedness.= _George
Eliot._
=You may as soon separate weight from lead,
heat from fire, moistness from water, and
brightness from the sun, as misery, discontent,
calamity, and danger from man.=
_Burton._
=You may as well ask a loom which weaves
huckaback why it does not make cashmere,
as expect poetry from this engineer, or a
chemical discovery from that jobber.= _Emerson._
=You may depend upon it, religion is, in its
essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the
world. It will alone gentilise, if unmixed
with cant; and I know nothing else that
will, alone; certainly not the army, which
is thought to be the grand embellisher of
manners.= _Coleridge._
=You may depend upon it that he is a good man
whose intimate friends are all good.= _Lavater._
=(You may) dig the deep foundations of a long-abiding= 30
=fame, / And wist not that they undermine
(your) home of love and peace.=
_Dr. W. C. Smith._
=You may do anything with bayonets except
sit on them.= _Napoleon._
=You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others,
both in your conversation and actions, from
being superior as well as inferior to them.=
_Greville._
=You may grow good corn in a little field.= _Pr._
=You may have to wait a bit--some of you a
shorter, some a longer time; but do wait,
and everything will fit in and be perfect at
last.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=You may imitate, but never counterfeit.= _Balzac._ 35
=You may know a wise man by his election of
an aim, and a sagacious by his election of
the means.= _Rückert._
=You may overthrow a government in the
twinkling of an eye, as you can blow up a
ship or upset and sink one; but you can no
more create a government with a word than
an iron-clad.= _Ruskin._
=You may paint with a very big brush, and yet
not be a great painter.= _Carlyle._
=You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth,
that there neither is, nor ever was, any person
remarkably ungrateful who was not also
insufferably proud; nor any one proud who
was not equally ungrateful.= _South._
=You may ride 's / With one soft kiss a thousand= 40
=furlongs ere / With spur we heat an acre.=
_Winter's Tale_, i. 2.
=You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as
to kill the lion crouching yonder ready to
spring upon me. My wishes are all right,
and I hope Providence will direct the ball."
Providence won't. You must do it; and if
you do not, you are a dead man.= _Ward
Beecher._
=You might as well ask an oyster to make progress,
as the people of any country in which
grumbling could by any possibility be prohibited.=
_John Wagstaffe._
=You must be content sometimes with rough
roads.= _Pr._
="You must be in the fashion," is the utterance
of weak-headed mortals.= _Spurgeon._
=You must begin at a low round of the ladder if
you mean to get on.= _George Eliot._
=You must confine yourself within the modest
limits of order.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 3.
=You must educate for education's sake only.=
_Ruskin._
=You must empty out the bathing-tub, but not= 5
=the baby along with it.= _Ger. Pr._
=You must either be directed by some that take
upon them to know, or take upon yourself
that which I am sure you do not know, or
jump the after-inquiry on your own peril.=
_Cymbeline_, v. 4.
=You must get your living by loving, else your
life is at least half a failure.= _Thoreau._
=You must live for another if you wish to live
for yourself.= _Sen._
=You must live the life.= _Lawrence Oliphant._
=You must lose a fly to catch a trout.= _Pr._ 10
=You must not equivocate, nor speak anything
positively for which you have no authority
but report, or conjecture, or opinion.= _Judge
Hale._
=You must not fear death, my lads; defy him,
and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.=
_Napoleon._
=You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your art of war.=
_Napoleon._
=You must not measure every man's corn by
your own bushel.= _Pr._
=You must not suppose that everything goes= 15
=right at first even with the best of us.= _Mrs.
Gatty._
=You must not think / That we are made of
stuff so flat and dull, / That we can let our
beard be shook with danger, / And think it
pastime.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=You must rouse in men a consciousness of
their own prudence and strength, if you
would raise their character.= _Vauvenargues._
=You must seek and find God in the heart.=
_Jean Paul._
=You need not tell all the truth, unless to those
who have a right to know it all. But let all
you tell be truth.= _Horace Mann._
=You never can elude the gods when you even= 20
=devise wrong.= _Thales._
=You never long the greatest man to be; / No!
all you say is; "I'm as good as he." / He's
the most envious man beneath the sun /
Who thinks that he's as good as every one.=
_Goethe._
=You never will love art well till you love what
she mirrors better.= _Ruskin._
=You often understand the true connection
of important events in your life not while
they are going on, nor soon after they are
past, but only a considerable time afterwards.=
_Schopenhauer._
=You ought to read books, as you take medicine,
by advice, and not advertisement.=
_Ruskin._
=You rub the sore, when you should bring the= 25
=plaster.= _Tempest_, ii. 1.
=You said your say; / Mine answer was my
deed.= _Tennyson._
=You see when they row in a barge, they that
do drudgery work, slash, and puff, and
sweat; but he that governs sits quietly at
the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.= _Selden._
=You shall never take a woman without her
answer, unless you take her without her
tongue.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to
catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities.
"The times= (as Carlyle says) =are bad; very
well, you are there to make them better."=
_John Burroughs._
=You take my house, when you do take the= 30
=prop / That doth sustain my house; you
take my life / When you do take the means
whereby I live.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=You that choose not by the view, / Choose as
fair, and choose as true.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=You traverse the world in search of happiness,
which is within the reach of every man; a
contented mind confers it on all.= _Hor._
=You watch figures in the fields, digging and
delving with spade or pick. You see one of
them from time to time straightening his
loins, and wiping his face with the back of
his hand.... It is there that for me you
must seek true humanity and great poetry.=
_Millet._
=You were used / To say, extremity was the
trier of spirits; / That common chances
common men could bear; / That when the
sea was calm, all boats alike / Showed
mastership in floating.= _Coriolanus_, iv. 1.
=You who are ashamed of your poverty, and= 35
=blush for your calling, are a snob; as are
you who boast of your pedigree, or are
proud of your wealth.= _Thackeray._
=You who follow wealth and power with unremitting
ardour, / The more in this you look
for bliss, you leave your view the farther.=
_Burns._
=You who forget your friends, meanly to follow
after those of a higher degree, are a snob.=
_Thackeray._
=You will as often find a great man above, as
below, his reputation, when once you come
to know him.= _Goethe._
=You will catch more flies with a spoonful of
honey than with a cask of vinegar.= _Eastern
Pr._
=You will find angling to be like the virtue of= 40
=humility, which has a calmness of spirit and
a world of other blessings attending upon it.=
_Izaac Walton._
=You will find rest unto your souls when first
you take on you the yoke of Christ, but joy
only when you have borne it as long as He
wills.= _Ruskin._
=You will find that most books worth reading
once are worth reading twice.= _John Morley._
=You will find that silence, or very gentle
words, are the most exquisite revenge for
reproaches.= _Judge Hale._
=You will get more profit from trying to find
where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring
what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable;
it appears to us, as in a dream,
when we behold the works of the great
poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling
artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy
form, the outline of which no definition holds.=
_Goethe._
=You will never live to my age, without you
keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and
in heart with joyfulness.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=You will never miss the right way if you
only act according to your feelings and conscience.=
_Goethe._
=You will never see anything worse than yourselves.=
_Anon._
=You wise, / To call him shamed, who is but
overthrown?= _Tennyson._
=You wish, O woman, to be ardently loved, and= 5
=for ever, even until death, be thou the
mother of your children.= _Jean Paul._
=You write with ease to show your breeding, /
But easy writing's cursed hard reading.=
_Sheridan._
=You'll repent if you marry, and you'll repent
if you don't.= _Old saying._
=Young authors give their brains much exercise
and little food.= _Joubert._
=Young Christians think themselves little;
growing Christians think themselves nothing;
full-grown Christians think themselves
less than nothing.= _John Newton._
=Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.= 10
_Dut. Pr._
=Young hot colts, being raged, do rage the
more.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=Young men are apt to think themselves wise
enough, as drunken men are to think themselves
sober enough.= _Chesterfield._
=Young men are fitter to invent than to judge;
fitter for execution than for counsel; and
fitter for new projects than for settled business.=
_Bacon._
=Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts;
old age is slow in both.= _Addison._
=Young men think that old men are fools; but= 15
=old men know young men are fools.= _Chapman._
=Young people are quick enough to observe
and imitate.= (?)
=Your acts are detectives, keener and more
unerring than ever the hand of sensational
novelist depicted; they will dog you from
the day you sinned till the hour your trial
comes off.= _Disraeli to young men._
=Your born angler is like a hound that scents
no game but that which he is in pursuit of.=
_John Burroughs._
=Your cause belongs / To him who can avenge
your wrongs.= _Winkworth._
=Your goodness must have some edge to it,= 20
=else it is none.= _Emerson._
=Your hands in your own pockets in the morning,
is the beginning of the last day; your
hands in other people's pockets at noon, is
the height of the last day.= _Ruskin._
=Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue
in "if."= _As You Like It_, v. 4.
=Your labour only may be sold; your soul must
not.= _Ruskin._
=Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords
light but not heat.= _Young._
=Your levellers wish to level down as far as= 25
=themselves; but they cannot bear levelling
up to themselves.= _J. Boswell._
=Your noblest natures are most credulous.=
_Chapman._
=Your own soul is the thing you ought to look
after.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Your own words and actions are the only
things you will be called to account for.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Your prime one need is to do right, under
whatever compulsion, till you can do it without
compulsion. And then you are a Man.=
_Ruskin._
=Your tongue runs before your wit.= _Swift._ 30
=Your rusty kettle will continue to boil your
water for you if you don't try to mend it.
Begin tinkering and there is an end of your
kettle.= _Carlyle._
=Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living
preachers,--each cup a pulpit, and each leaf
a book.= _Horace Smith._
=Your words are like notes of dying swans--/
Too sweet to last.= _Dryden._
=You're always sure to detect / A sham in the
things folks most affect.= _Bret Harte._
=Yours is a pauper's soul, a rich man's pelf: /= 35
=Rich to your heirs, a pauper to yourself.=
_Lucillius._
=Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience,
are, each of them, the source of
ruin. What then must be the fate of him
in whom all four are combined?= _Hitopadesa._
=Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect.
Age looks back on the happiness of
youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment
in the recollection of hope.= _Coleridge._
=Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like
the days of spring. Instead of complaining,
O my heart, of their brief duration, try to
enjoy them.= _Rückert._
=Youth ever thinks that good whose goodness
or evil he sees not.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship= 40
=fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them
all!= _Holmes._
=Youth holds no society with grief.= _Euripides._
=Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old
age, a regret.= _Disraeli._
=Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose
the medium in the wild extreme.= _Aaron Hill._
=Youth is ever confiding; and we can almost
forgive its disinclination to follow the counsels
of age, for the sake of the generous disdain
with which it rejects suspicion.= _W. H.
Harrison._
=Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; /= 45
=Youth is nimble, age is lame: / Youth is hot
and bold, age is weak and cold; / Youth is
wild, and age is tame.= _Shakespeare._
=Youth is not rich in time; it may be, poor;
part with it, as with money, sparing; pay
no moment but in purchase of its worth;
and what its worth ask death-beds, they
can tell.= _Young._
=Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then
expect too much, and we are therefore exposed
to daily disappointments and mortifications.
When we are a little older, and
have brought down our wishes to our experience,
then we become calm and begin
to enjoy ourselves.= _Lord Liverpool._
=Youth is the season of credulity.= _Chatham._
=Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age
too insecure for happiness. The period most
favourable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate,
and generous life, is that between
forty and sixty. Life culminates at sixty.=
_Bovee._
=Youth may make / Even with the year; but
age, if it will hit, / Shoots a bow short, and
lessens still his stake, / As the day lessens,
and his life with it.= _George Herbert._
=Youth never yet lost its modesty where age
had not lost its honour; nor did childhood
ever refuse its reverence, except where age
had forgotten correction.= _Ruskin._
=Youth no less becomes / The light and careless
livery that it wears, / Than settled age his
sables and his weeds, / Importing health and
graveness.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=Youth should be a savings-bank.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.= 5
_Ham._, i. 3.
=Youth would rather be stimulated than instructed.=
_Goethe._
=Youth, when thought is speech and speech
is truth.= _Scott._
=Youth will never live to age, without they keep
themselves in breath with exercise, and in
heart with joyfulness. Too much thinking
doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out,
that while one thinks too much of doing, he
leaves to do the effect of his thinking.= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=Youthful failing is not to be admired except in
so far as one may hope that it will not be the
failing of old age.= _Goethe._