There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.