“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.”

“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...”

“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”

“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be”

“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”