Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.
Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
We are of our childhood as we are from a country.
The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.
Education is not confined to childhood and adolescence. Learning is not limited to the schools. Throughout life, our milieu is our teacher, at once stern and dangerous.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
