It seemed to me that there was something unnaturally deliberate in the way my daughter uttered those words. Perhaps I imagined it, but then a father comes to notice any small inflections in his daughter's speech.
Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.
I don’t fret about posterity. But some things will last.
I confess I take a strange comfort from observing children inherit these resemblances from other members of the family, and it is my hope that my grandson will retain them into his adult years.
Healthy children wil not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
You see a child play and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember, that virtue not hereditary.
When I became a father, I understood God. His presence is everywhere, since all created things come from him. That is how I am with my daughters. Only I love my daughters more than God loves the world.