139. The spring is the youth of trees, wealth is the youth of men, beauty is the youth of women, intelligence is the youth of the young.—Sanskrit.
140. The plays of children are the germinal leaves of all later life.—Froebel.
141. The time of breeding is the time of doing children good. —George Herbert.
142. They were scant o' bairns that brought you up.—Scotch.
143. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace on the earth; at length middle-aged, he concludes to build a woodshed with them.—Thoreau.
144. They who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; these gave them life only, those the art of well-living.—Aristotle.
145. To a child all weather is cold.
146. To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.—Rousseau.
147. To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent, and let them puzzle it out.—Scott.
148. Un enfant brûlé craint le feu. [A burnt child dreads the fire.]—French.