原文:Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. (Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age)
微笑總與永不淡色的容顏相隨,並在不朽的青春中繁華。--巴羅(Isaac Barrow)
原文:Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
年輕人應該觀看賞樂並在飛行中向他們射擊。 --約翰·德萊頓(John Dryden)
原文:Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.