A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Late Children, early Orphans.