Childhood

"The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day."

"As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore."

"Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child."

"There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children."

"Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw."

"I wonder– didn’t the Creator really do injustice? With a power to defeat everyone without any battle, children are busy at play with the most beautiful moments of their life. Once they grow conscious of it, those moments will have gone away never to return to them."

"Once positioned on their(children's) lips, even the scariest of words come out as a melodious lisp."

"Even If they (children) fall during their play, the nature, having come under the spell of their creative sports, doesn’t know when they again start to play so full of jest. Believing that they fall unknowingly the ground, mostly, does not even hurt them."

"If they (children) smash, the flower vase assumes a smile while turning into pieces. For a chance to be spilled by their hands, anything they hold gets spilled itself full of happiness. For a chance to play with them, water forgets about its own colourlessness."

"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."

"And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe."

"It is only when we start enjoying childhood that we have stepped out of it."

"O lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world! My widow-comfort, and my sorrow's cure!"