“For he who is unmusical is a child in music; he who is without letters is a child in learning; he who is untaught, is a child in life.”

“Yes, that's how it is, child. He who works, he who is patient is the superior.”

“The first child is also loved, when he is still the only child and there is the absence of someone who can take his place.”

“The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.”

“It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants.”

“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”

“He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.”

“The last child is always loved by the parents, simply because he has the ability to imitate and learn from those who saw the sun before him.”

“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.”

“He was a child, and a spoiled child, but a child of high imagination; and so he wasted himself on ghost-stories and German romances.”