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My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our yo

My son, we ought to lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth, or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many on our way. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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