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 […]
Children Quotes
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: […]
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
The sublimest song to be heard on earth is the lisping of the human soul on the lips of children.
Little people (i.e., babies) should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particularly striking to some brother, sister, or servant, immediately before the impression is erased by the intervention of newer occurrences.
I remember a lot of talk and a lot of laughter. I must have talked a great deal because Martha used to say again and again, “You remember you said this, you said that… ” She remembered everything I said, and all my life I’ve had the feeling that what I think and what I […]
No one keeps a secret so well as a child.
I would rather have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his […]
