My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.

We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Children are poor men's riches.

Children are poor men's riches.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to read more

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.