For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. 597
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. 578
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. 602
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. 660
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. 631
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. 1.85K
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. 676
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. 2.54K
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. 665
