Relationships and Family

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

A child is the root of the heart.

A child is the root of the heart.

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children—and what an inhuman world, without the aged.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children—and what an inhuman world, without the aged.

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks most deeply and draws more blood.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

When one loves somebody, everything is clear—where to go, what to do—it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.

Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.