Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott
Nevertheless, a maxim does not necessarily become a proverb. Many grubs never grow to butterflies; and a maxim is only a proverb in its caterpillar stage—a candidate for a wider sphere and longer flight than most are destined to attain. – “Proverbs Secular and Sacred,” The North British Review, February 1858