The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day

by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

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.