Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

All children have creative power.

All children have creative power.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things read more

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad read more

Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to tell everyday, some are like that one station with the foreign language; you don't understand a word of it but you listen and watch.