It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.
I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.
There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.
I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.
