Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.