In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on u…

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Der Umgang mit Kindern hat fur einen verstandigen Menschen unendlich viel Interesse. Hier sieht er das Buch der Natur in unverfalschter Ausgabe aufgeschlagen.'