The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.