"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary"

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom"