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

19. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.—Pope.

20. Better be unborn than untaught.—Gaelic.

21. Birth's good, but breeding's better.—Scotch.

22. Bon sang ne peut mentir. Qui naquit chat court après les souris. [Good blood cannot lie. The kitten will chase the mouse.]—French.

23. Broken bread makes hale bairns.—Scotch.

24. By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.—Goldsmith.

25. Çe que l'enfant entend au foyer, est bientôt connu jusqu'au Moistre. [What children hear at the fireside is soon known as far as Moistre (a town in Savoy).]—French.

26. Che nasce bella nasce maritata. [A beautiful girl is born married.]—Italian.

27. Childhood and youth see the world in persons.—Emerson.

28. Childhood is the sleep of Reason.—Rousseau.