“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed
“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children
“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers
“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this
“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass
“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state
“Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people
“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense
“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course