My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" --