Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.