“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a chil...”

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”

“There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.”

“If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

“The child is father of the man.”

“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're...”

“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pre...”

“a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.”

“What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the avera...”

“Soon never comes soon enough to a young child.”