My birthday! - what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round.
Less and less white its mark appears. [ Moore ]

Haste thee. Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity.
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles.
Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles. [ Milton ]

And I have loved thee. Ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy
I wanton'd with thy breakers. [ Byron ]

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart. [ Washington Irving ]

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn love. [ Ricard ]

What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's? [ Tennyson ]

Praise begets emulation, - a goodly seed to sow among youthful students. [ Horace Mann ]

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. [ Chilo ]

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. [ Goldsmith ]

Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to mature years. [ H. W. Shaw ]

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. [ Richard Baxter ]

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. [ Dr. Watts ]

Bid the cheek be ready with a blush, modest as Morning when she coldly eyes the youthful Phoebus. [ William Shakespeare ]

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect. [ Horace Mann ]

O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain than youthful April shall with all his showers; in summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still. [ William Shakespeare ]

He used words as mere steppingstones, upon which, with a free and youthful bound, his spirit crosses and recrosses the bright and rushing stream of thought. [ Longfellow ]

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. [ Beaconsfield ]

The awakening of our best sympathies, the cultivation of our best and purest tastes, strengthening the desire to be useful and good, and directing youthful ambition to unselfish ends, - such are the objects of true education. [ J. T. Headley ]

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. [ Channing ]

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]