Young Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or leaves:

“To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)

“Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, which at the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)