"Happiness is an imaginary state, which was previously often attributed to ancestors; Now adults usually attribute it to children, and children - adults "
Thomas Szasz

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"A child can teach an adult three things: to rejoice without any reason, always find employment and insist on one's own"
Paulo Coelho

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"Why," says the egoist, "will I work for the offspring when it did absolutely nothing for me?" "You are unjust, madman!" Offspring has made for you already what you, bringing together the past with the present and the future, you can arbitrarily consider yourself: an infant, a young man, and an old man "
Kozma Prutkov

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"If you can not see the ideal of moral perfection in children, then at least you can not disagree that they are incomparably more moral than adults"
Nikolay Dobrolyubov

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"The well-being of the whole people depends on the proper upbringing of children"
John Locke

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"Nothing acts in the infantile children's minds more than the universal power of example, and between all other examples of no one else in them is impressed with a deeper and harder example of parents"
Nikolay Novikov

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"Philosophers and children have one noble trait: they do not attach importance to any differences between people - neither social, nor mental, nor external"
Arkady Averchenko

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"The children of their time are orphans"
Dominique Opole

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"It is absolutely unreasonable that he considers it necessary to teach children, not to the extent that they can absorb, but in which he himself desires"
Jan Comenius

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"How many children mothers showered with kisses, which were not intended for them!"
Etienne Ray

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"Parents least forgive their children the vices that they themselves instilled in them"
Johann Schiller

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"Happiness visits us in different forms and almost imperceptibly, but I saw it more often among young children, at home, and in village houses than in other places"
Adam Smith

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