
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
St. 11.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. ”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 465
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 36
Alhazen, quoted in “Muslim Journeys.” Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2013. Also in Ibn al-Haytham Brief life of an Arab mathematician: died circa 1040 (September-October 2003) http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/09/ibn-al-haytham-html
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter I "The Education of the Architect" Sec. 1
“He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!”
The Mayor of Garratt (1763, published 1764), Act i, Scene 1.