“The child is father of the man.”

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

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

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

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

“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

“I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.”

“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...”

“The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.”

“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”

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

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”