To keep clear of concealment  to keep clear of the need of concealment  to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched  then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can.
Phillips Brooks
youth