Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.
Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
...why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.
The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often.
You shall above all things be glad and young.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.