Il n'y a point d'enfants que nous aimions davantage que ceux qui naissent de notre esprit, et desquels nous sommes père et mère tout ensemble.

Translation: There are no children of whom we are fonder than those that are born of our brains, to whom we are father and mother in one. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 67.