Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, — Jean de La Bruyere
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. — Jean de La Bruyere
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. — Jean de La Bruyere
Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love. — Jean de La Bruyere