We are merely accessories to the great and main fact, which is youth." "Do you believe that to be true, Robert ?" asked Master Benjamin Hardy, a twinkle in his eye.
"I hope it's not, sir," replied Robert, reddening again under his tan.
"But it's true and it will remain true," continued the schoolmaster judicially.

"It was equally true of all of us who passed our youth long ago.

I do not quarrel with it.

I merely state a fact of life.

Perhaps if I could I would not strip youth of this unconscious absorption in self, because in doing so we might deprive it of the simplicity and directness, the artless beliefs that make youth so attractive." "I hold," said Mr.Hervey, "that age is really a state of mind.