華閱文章網作者是生于德國的猶太人塞繆爾·厄爾曼，短短百字，含義確令人回味無窮。
這是描寫青春的經典之作 Youth
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of rosy heeks, red lips and supple * is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions,it is the freshness of the deep spring of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of * grows merely by the number of years we grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to *r 60 or 16, there is every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of * the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you're grown old, even at 20,but as long as your aerials are up to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.
