No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

"Well, I guess the children have left for school by this time-I might as well go home."

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?

Childhood is a short season.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

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