That was and still is the great disaster of my life – that lovely, lovely little boy… There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. (on the death of his first son Doud Dwight (“Icky”) at age three)
Children Quotes
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Children are a house’s enemy. They don’t mean to be-they just can’t help it. It’s their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
Teach your child to hold his tongue, He’ll learn fast enough to speak.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
The type of man devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children. I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
