Children are all right, so long as you just take them for what they are: young immature things like kittens and half-grown dogs, nuisances, sometimes very charming.

But I'll be hanged if I can see anything high and holy about children.

I should be sorry, too, it would be so bad for the children.

Young brats, tiresome and amusing in turns." "When they don't give themselves airs," said Aaron.
"Yes, indeed.

Which they do half the time.