"You are talking like an impossibly romantic character in one of the plays of your nonage!

It occasionally puts children over men, and the conceits of nonage over wisdom and experience.

For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage.

But the years have not dealt kindly with Mr. Spare, and he must not be content with producing in his majority what passed muster in his nonage.

To inform the mind, and govern the actions of their yet ignorant nonage, till reason shall take its place and ease them of that trouble, is what the children want, and the parents are bound to.

All these had been condemned as useless baubles, playthings, at best, fit only for the infancy of the world, or rods to govern and chastise it in its nonage; but with which universal manhood, at its full-grown stature, could no longer brook to be insulted.

In Shaw's preface "Novels of my Nonage", written in 1901, he disparages his early work, including Cashel Byron's Profession: "...people will admire [the author] for the feats any fool can achieve, and bear malice against him for boring them with better work."

And history sufficiently informs us, that the bravest achievements were always accomplished in the non-age of a nation.