“In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults.”

“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.”

“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

“Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”

“Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something…. My theory is a children's book… can be just for fun.”

“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”

“A man, an adult, is precisely what [Aeneas] is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.”

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”