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

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.