To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.
Eloquence is the child of knowledge.
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.