Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Youth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.256, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.406
When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
"Voluntaries" no. 3 (1867)
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.25, The Floating Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.75, Harvard University Press