"People smile at the enthusiasm of youth," says Charles Kingsley; "that enthusiasm which they themselves secretly look back to with a sigh, perhaps unconscious that it is partly their own fault that they ever lost it." How much the world owes to the enthusiasm of Dante! Tennyson wrote his first volume at eighteen, and at nineteen gained a medal at Cambridge.
"The most beautiful works of all art were done in youth," says Ruskin.
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth," wrote Disraeli.

"The world's interests are, under God, in the hands of the young," says Dr.Trumbull.
It was the youth Hercules that performed the Twelve Labors.
Enthusiastic youth faces the sun, it shadows all behind it.

The heart rules youth; the head, manhood.

Alexander was a mere youth when he rolled back the Asiatic hordes that threatened to overwhelm European civilization almost at its birth.

Napoleon had conquered Italy at twenty-five.