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

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.