"Youth is a continual intoxication; it is..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
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“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”
“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”