He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply...

I used to know Brian Howard well — a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous — constantly attacking people with his fists in public places — so...

Most young men are such bores. They haven’t lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming...

It’s quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I’ll always be fond of you.

But the second kind seek out the women who love women, who can procure a young man for them and add to the pleasure which they get from finding themselves with him; much more, they...

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of – and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man– that question I had to grapple with, and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times– whether to follow uncritically...