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

6. An old knave is no babe.

7. A smiling boy seldom proves a good servant.

8. Auld folk are twice bairns.—Scotch.

9. Aus gescheidenen Kindern werden Gecken. [From clever children come fools.]—German.

10. Aus Kindern werden Leute, aus Jungfern werden Bräute. [From children come grown-up people, from maidens come brides.] —German.

11. Better bairns greet [i.e. weep] than bearded men. —Scotch.

12. Childhood and youth see all the world in persons. —Emerson.

13. 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.

14. Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.—Milton.

15. Der Jüngling kämpft, damit der Greis geniesse. [The youth fights, in order that the old man may enjoy.]—Goethe.