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On
the Importance of a Well Spent Youth
A desire to live
long is the wish of all the human species. Thus; all hope for themselves
a long life and that their age will be attracted with tranquility and
comfort; but few think that a happy old age depends entirely upon a well
spent youth. If we have been dissipated and profligate in our earlier
years it would be almost improbable for us to be happy in after years.
The life of man is a building. Youth is the foundation of habits, disposition
and knowledge. Middle life and age must finish the structure, and we all
know that no good edifice of moral or material can be revised on a faulty
foundation. Children who have not availed themselves of the first rudiments
of learning in their infancy when they could as well as not are held in
contempt by children who have played less and learned more; It is a great
mistake to think that diversion should form the business of life, it is
well enough in its place. But when it becomes the business of life, it
is no longer diversion. and lastly the infirmities of age, want the reflections
of a well spent youth to comfort and solace them.
Thus, a misspent youth is sure to make a miserable and contemptible old
age.
George
A. Weeks Dec 20th, 1846
Salisbury, VT
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