(That she may feel) How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is -Shakspere. King Lear (Lear), Act 1, In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat. -Horace Mann. (But what am I?) An infant crying in the night : -Tennyson. In Memoriam, LIV. He that spareth the rod hateth his son. Love is a boy, by poets styl'd, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child. -Butler. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. I., line 843. Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shalt thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience, and his second shall be what thou wilt. -Quarles. A child is an angel dependent on man. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Fleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw. -Pope. Essay on Man, Ep. II., line 275. Poetry is the child of nature, which, regulated and made beautiful by art, presenteth the most harmonious of all other compositions. -Shirley. Preface to Beaumont and Fletcher, Folio Ed., 1647. An old man's twice a child. -Massinger, The Bashful Lover (Gothrio), Act III., Sc. I. Old men are twice children. -Randolph. The Jealous Lovers (Simo), Act III., Sc. VI. Childhood, whose very happiness is love. —L. E. L. Erinna. Children and fooles cannot lye. -7. Heywood. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI. Children and fooles speake true. -Lyly. Endimion. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. -Bacon. Essay VII., Of Parents and Children. Children use the fist Until they are of age to use the brain. MAN. Weak, noble, strong, impulsive, helpless Man; And hating oft the things that most should please. Infinite atom, Man, when measured by The little casket that contains his soul Infinite Man, he towers to the sky, When o'er the earth great thoughts resistless roll. A man is never too old to learn. -J. C. H. -Middleton. Mayor of Queenborough (Simon), Act V., Sc. I. He who hath bent him o'er the dead -Byron. The Giaour. It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or his creditors, or to society in some form or other. It is for their especial good and behalf that he lives and works, and they kindly allow him to retain a certain percentage of his gains to administer to his own pleasures or wants. He has his body, and that is all, and even for that he is answerable to society. In short, society is the master and man is the servant; and it is entirely according as society proves a good or bad master, whether he turns out a bad or a good servant. A man is a god in ruins, -G. A. Sala. -Emerson (quoted by) Nature, Ch. VIII., Men are, in the state, what musical instruments are in an orchestra; they render the sounds more or less agreeable according as they are well or badly touched. -Beaumelle. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a God. -Shakspere. A man is not completely born until he be dead. -B. Franklin. Letters. To Miss E. Hubbard. Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man ? -Shakspere. |