Children

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.

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

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is

A child's a plaything for an hour

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

Nobody is going to let anybody's children play on something that is unsafe. There is just no way

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child