The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.

There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.