Don’t take up a man’s time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
Children Quotes
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Be patient with the boys – you are dealing with soul-stuff.
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives, therefore, depends on employing well the short period of youth.
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.
Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end… you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about […]
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive.
When children become unimportant to society, that society has forfeited its future.
Johnson said always, ‘that the world was well constructed, but that the particular people disgraced the elegance and beauty of the general fabric.’ In the same manner I was relating once to him, how Dr. Collier observed, that the love one bore to children was from the anticipation one’s mind made while one contemplated them: […]
