A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full; so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows. . .

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does