“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Early Success", The Crack-Up (1945)

About F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 – 1940

American novelist, author of "The Great Gatsby".

“There are no second acts in American lives.”

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.”

“For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.”

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

“At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin.”