Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Children Quotes
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.
But I am, at heart, with Quintilian in deprecating flogging under any conditions. If then you ask, “What is to be done with boys who respond to no other spur?” My answer is: “What would you do if an ox or an ass strayed into your classroom?” turn him out to the plough or the […]
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
