Boys will be boys.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Children act in the village as they have learned at home.

Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys."