I tell you the children have the same rights that we have, and we ought to treat them as though they were human beings. They should be reared with love, with kindness, with tenderness, and not with brutality. That is my idea of children.

I tell you God cannot afford to damn a man in the next world who has made a happy family in this. God cannot afford to cast over the battlements of heaven the …

I think it is better to love your children than to love God, a thousand times better, because you can help them, and I am inclined to think that God can get al…

I never have denied the immortality of the soul. I have simply been honest. I have said: 'I do not know.'

If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to un…

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps he…