16. Een diamant van een dochter wordt een glas van eene vrouw. [A diamond of a daughter becomes a glass of a wife.] - Dutch.

17. Eident [i.e. diligent] youth makes easy age. - Scotch. Ewig jung zu bleiben

18.

Ist, wie Dichter schreiben,
Höchstes Lebensgut;
Willst du es erwerben,

Musst du frühe sterben.

[To remain ever-young
Is, as poets write,

The highest good of life;

If thou wouldst acquire it,

Thou must die young.]— Rückert.

19. Fanciulli piccioli, dolor di testa; fanciulli grandi dolor di cuore. [Little children bring head-ache, big children, heart-ache.] Italian. 20. Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio. [Young saint, old devil.] Italian. 21. Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld. - Scotch.

22. Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee.. -Schiller.

23. He cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.

24.

-Sir Philip Sidney.

He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mocked in age and death. - Blake.

25. How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man!

- Ovid.

26. If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.

27. Ihr Kinder, lernet jetzt genug,

Ihr lernt nichts mehr in alten Zeiten.

[Ye children, learn enough now;

When time has passed, you will learn nothing more.]

-Pfeffel.

28. In childhood a linen rag buys friendship. - Angolese.

29. In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent. - Socrates.

30. In the opening bud you see the youthful thorns.- Talmud. 31. In youth one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears. Jean Paul.

32. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

33. It's no child's play, when an old woman dances.

-Swift.

Low German. 34. Jong rijs is te buigen, maar geen oude boomen. [A young twig can be bent, but not old trees.]-Dutch.

35. Jonge lui, domme lui; oude lui, koude lui. [Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.]— Dutch.

36. Junge Faullenzer, alte Bettler. [Young idlers, old beggars.]

37. Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth

When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

German.

Scott.

38. La jeunesse devrait être une caisse d'épargne. [Youth ought to be a savings-bank.]-Mme. Svetchin.

39.

Learn young, learn fair;

Learn auld, learn mair. - Scotch.

40. Let the young people mind what the old people say,

And where there is danger, keep out of the way.

41. Levity is artlessness in a child, a shameful fault in men, and a terrible folly in old age.- La Rochefoucauld.

42. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. - Shakespeare (As You Like It, iv. 1).

43. Man schont die Alten, wie man die Kinder schont. [We spare old people, as we spare children.] - Goethe.

44. Man mut de kinner bugen, so lange se junk sünt. [Children must be bent while they are young.]-Frisian.

45. Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.

Barrie.

46. My son's my son till he hath got him a wife,

But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. 47. Nicht die Kinder bloss speist man mit Märchen ab. [Not children alone are put off with tales.]-Lessing.

48. Old head and young hand.

49. Old heads will not suit young

shoulders.

52. Se il giovane sapesse, se il vecchio potesse, e' non c' è cosa che non si facesse. [If the youth but knew, if the old man but could, there is nothing which would not be done.] - Italian.

53. Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. - Landor. 54. The household is the home of the man as well as of the child. - Emerson.

55. The man whom grown-up people love, children love still more. - Jean Paul.

56. There are in man, in the beginning, and at the end, two blank book-binder's leaves, - childhood and age. — Jean Paul. 57. We are children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are gray and put all our burden on the Lord.

Bulgarian.

Barrie.

58. We bend the tree when it is young. 59. When bairns are young they gar their parents' heads ache; when they are auld they make their hearts break. - Scotch. 60. When children, we are sensualists, when in love, idealists. Goethe. 61. Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die Jungen. [As the old birds sing, the young ones twitter.] - German.

62. Wir sind auch Kinder gewesen. [We too were once children.]-German.

63. Young men think that old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.- Chapman.

64. Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret. - Disraeli.

65.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;

Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;

Youth is wild, and age is tame.-Shakespeare.

CHAPTER XXXII.

PROVERBS, SAYINGS, ETC., ABOUT THE CHILD AND

CHILDHOOD.

1. A beltless bairn cannot lie. Scotch.
2. A burnt child dreads the fire.
3. A child is a Cupid become visible.
4. A daft nurse makes a wise wean.
5. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.

6. A hungry belly has no ears.

7. A lisping lass is good to kiss.

Novalis.
Scotch.

8. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

9.

An infant crying in the night,

An infant crying for the light;

And with no language but a cry. - Tennyson.

10. A pet lamb makes a cross ram.

11. A reasonable word should be received even from a child or

a parrot. 12.

Sanskrit.

A simple child

That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,

What should it know of death?

Wordsworth.

13. As sair greets [as much weeps] the bairn that's paid at e'en as he that gets his whawks in the morning. - Scotch.

14. A tarrowing bairn was never fat. - Scotch.

Scotch.

16. Auld wives and bairns make fools of physicians.
17. Bairns are certain care, but nae sure joy. · - Scotch.
18. Be born neither wise nor fair, but lucky.
19. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,

Russian.

Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. — Pope.

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. Ce 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. 28. Childhood is the sleep of Reason. Rousseau. 29. Children and chickens are always a-picking. 30. Children and drunken people tell the truth. 31. Children and fools speak the truth. — Greek. 32. Children and fools have many lives.

Emerson.

33. Children are certain sorrows, but uncertain joys.. 34. Children are the poor man's wealth. — Danish.

Danish.

35. Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive your slightest defects. - Fénelon.

36. Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for gold and silver.

37. Children have more need of models than of critics.

Joubert.

38. Children have wide ears and long tongues. 38a. Children increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

39. Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent, that they detect and hunt out everything-the bad before all the rest. Goethe.

40. Children of wealth, or want, to each is given

41.

One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven.

Children pick up words as chickens peas, And utter them again as God shall please. 42. Children should have their times of being off duty, like soldiers.

· Ruskin.