“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this”

“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children”

“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state”

“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world”