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.