Samuel Butler Children Quotations

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?