That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.