Yankee.—The word Yankee is believed to have been derived from the manner in which the Indians endeavored to pronounce the word English, which they rendered Yenghees, whence the word Yankee.
—From "Milledulcia."
2121
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
—Burton.
2122
How often it is like autumn leaves, many hopes and ambitions that yesterday were bright and strong, are now, alas, dead!
2123
Thy yesterday is past,
Thy to-day, thy future,
Thy to-morrow, is a secret.
—From The Talmud.
2124
Speak gently to the young, for they
Will have enough to bear—
Pass through this life as best they may,
'Tis full of anxious care.
—Geo. W. Hangford.
2125
YOUTH.
How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of beginnings, story without end,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
All possibilities are in its hands:
No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands:
In its sublime audacity of faith,
"Be thou removed!" it, to the mountain, saith.
2126
An easy youth, generally means a hard old age.
2127
YOUTH AND AGE.
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.
2128
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme.
—Aaron Hill.
2129
YOUTH.
Happy the youth that finds the bride
Whose birth is to his own allied,
The sweetest joy of life:
But oh, the crowds of wretched souls
Fetter'd to minds of different moulds
And chain'd t' eternal strife!
—Dr. Isaac Watts.
2130
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
2131
What is youth?—a dancing billow,
Winds behind, and rocks before!
—Wordsworth.
2132
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well, and working easy: you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
2133
Heavy work in youth is sweet repose in old age.
—From the Italian.