Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott, (Nov 29 1799-1888), US teacher, philosopher, reformer; He started several innovative schools and wrote Conversations with Children on the Gospels, 1836-37.