YOUTH

Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: “You know, I have been young and you have never been old.” But today’s young people can reply: “You have never been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be”….This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

-- Margaret Mead

Young men embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end without consideration of the means; pursue some few principles absurdly; use extreme remedies at first; like an unready horse will neither stop nor turn.

-- Francis Bacon