children Quotes

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect... ...

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained... ...

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Those who teach children well deserve more honor than those who simply give birth to them; parents give life, but teachers provide the skill of living well.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.