What’s Done To Children, They Will Do To Society

Children are not things to be moulded,
But are people to be unfolded.

The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

A child is not a vase to be filled,
But a fire to be lit.

It is as cruel to bore a child as to beat him.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

I do not love him because he is good,
But because he is my little child.

Children are always the only future the human race has.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself.
If you have it, they catch it from you.

It is a grim old world, and I think one has need of children to keep one’s faith clear and one’s hope bright.
One cannot think too evilly of a world in which one’s sons and daughters are to live.
For their sake one must try not only to make it better but to think it good.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

What’s done to children, they will do to society.

I learnt two things as a child.
Firstly, not to sneeze when you’re hiding.
And never to smile when you’re fibbing.