The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. — Henry Ward Beecher

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. — James Russell Lowell
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. — Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. — Henry Ward Beecher