“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
“Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.”
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them;
sometimes they forgive them.”
sometimes they forgive them.”
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now,
I have six children and no theories.”
I have six children and no theories.”
“Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.”
“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”
“Children are our greatest natural resource.”
“Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”
“The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.”
“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”
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