CHAPTER XXVIII.

PROVERBS, SAYINGS, ETC., ABOUT THE CHILD, MANKIND, GENIUS, ETC.

1. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force, though shot by a child.--_Bacon_.

2. Childhood often holds a truth in its feeble fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, and which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.--_Ruskin_.

3. Children always turn toward the light.--_Hare_.

4. Der grösste Mensch bleibt stets ein Menschenkind. [The greatest man always remains a son of man.]--_Goethe_.

5. Dieu aide á trois sortes de personnes,--aux fous, aux enfants, et aux ivrognes. [God protects three sorts of people,--fools, children, and drunkards.]--_French_.

6. Enfants et fous sont devins. [Children and fools are soothsayers.]--_French_.

7. Every child is, to a certain extent, a genius, and every genius is, to a certain extent, a child.--_Schopenhauer_.

8. Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.--_Jesus_.

9. Fede ed innocenzia son reperte Solo ne' pargoletti. [Faith and innocence we find Only in the children's mind.] --_Dante_.

10. Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.--_Coleridge_.

11. Genius must be born, and never can be taught.--_Dryden_.

12. Genius should be the child of genius, and every child should be inspired.--_Emerson_.

13. God is kind to fou [_i.e._ drunken] folk and bairns.--_Scotch_.

14. God watches over little children and drunkards.--_Russian_.

15. Heaven lies about us in our infancy.--_Wordsworth_.

16. I love God and little children.--_Jean Paul_.

17. If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.--_Goethe_.

18. Infancy presents body and spirit in unity; the body is all animated.--_Coleridge_.

19. Ingenio non ætate adipiscitur sapientia. [Wisdom comes by nature, not by age.]--_Latin_.

20. Kinder und Narren sprechen die Wahrheit. [Children and fools tell the truth.]--_German_.

21. Kloke kinner ward nit old. [Wise children don't live long.] --_Frisian_.

22. L'homme est toujours l'enfant, et l'enfant toujours l'homme. [The man is always the child, and the child is always the man.] --_French_.

23. Mankind at large always resembles frivolous children; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused.--_Emerson_.

24. Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, And full as craving, too, and full as vain.--_Dryden_.

25. Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them.--_Carlyle_.

26. Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.--_Cowper_.

27. Men fear death as children to go into the dark.--_Bacon_.

28. Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.--_Emerson_.

29. Nothing is so intelligible to the child, nothing seems so natural to him as the marvellous or the supernatural.--_Zacharia_.

30. Odi puerulos præcoci ingenio. [I hate boys of precocious genius.]--_Cicero_.

31. _on oi theoi philousin apothnaeskei neos_. [He whom the gods love dies young.]--_Menander_.

32. Poeta nascitur, non fit. [A poet is born, not made.]--_Latin_.

33. Prophete rechts, Prophete links, Das Weltkind in der Mitten. [Prophets to right of him, prophets to left of him, The world-child in the middle.]--_Goethe_.

34. So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long. --_Shakespeare_ (Rich. III. iii. 1).

35. Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.--_Jesus_.

36. The best architecture is the expression of the mind of man-hood by the hands of childhood.--_Ruskin_.

37. The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.--_Simons_.

38. The boy's story is the best that is ever told.--_Dickens_.

39. The child is father of the man.--_Wordsworth_.

40. The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.--_Milton_.

41. The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.--_Emerson_.

42. These moving things, ca'ed wife and weans, Wad move the very heart o' stanes.--_Burns_.

43. They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child.--_Leigh Hunt_.

44. To be young is to be as one of the immortals.--_Hazlitt_.

45. Wage du zu irren und zu traumen: Hoher Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel. [Dare thou to err and dream; Oft deep sense a child's play holds.]--_Schiller_.

46. Wer darf das Kind beim rechten Namen nennen? [Who dare give the child its right name?]--_Goethe_.

47. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old but grow young.--_Emerson_.

48. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.--_Jesus_.

49. Ye are but children.--_Egyptian Priest (to Solon)_.