A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to read more

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you started. He or she is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to the things which you think are important. The fate of humanity is in his or her hand.

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.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in read more

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of read more

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

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

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

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does read more

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.