YOUTH

The heart is the real Fountain of Youth. While that remains young the Waterbury of Time must stand still.
- Notebook, 1898

Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson

One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life.
- The Innocents Abroad

One of the very advantages of youth- you don't own any stock in anything. You have a good time, and all the grief and trouble is with the other fellows.
- Speech 10/3/1895

The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer