Children

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the child's and more simple than simplicity itself; in spite of the many clever wrinkles on his parchment face, and the masterly play of his fingers in unravelling the knots.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

And that’s what parents were created for.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

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

A child is the root of the heart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Yes, there is a nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.