Great Throughts Treasury

"There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mothers age."

"Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence."

"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children and the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."

"You know more than you think you do."

"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. "

"Man is a spiritual being in that - unless he is badly corrupted - he responds powerfully to non-material stimuli: the beauty in nature or in art, the trust of children, the needs of helpless people, the death of a friend even though long absent."

"We human beings are capable of greater nobility than other species, but we are also potentially much more vicious. No other animal can be persuaded to fear and to hate multitudes of its own kind whom he has never seen."