"We must be young to do great..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.”

“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”

“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”

“Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.”

“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.”

“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.”

“It is the success which makes great men.”

“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”