I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old.  In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.—­Dr. Johnson.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.—­Goethe.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.—­Franklin.

                              Oh! the joy

Of young ideas painted on the mind,
In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads
On objects not yet known, when all is new,
And all is lovely. 

                                    —­Hannah more.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.—­Lytton.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.—­Goethe.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.—­Dr. Metcalf.

As I approve of a youth, that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man, that has something of the youth.—­Cicero.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.—­RIVAROL.

Zeal.—­Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.—­Coleridge.

Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.—­Barrow.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.—­Buddha.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.—­SHENSTONE.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.—­Jeremy Taylor.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity.  The former is but human, the latter is divine.—­Hosea Ballou.

It is a coal from God’s altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.—­William Penn.

Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, “the Son of Man,” who “came not to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”—­Bishop Mant.

Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.—­Swift.