“No man has ever lived that had enough Of children's gratitude or woman's love.”— William Butler Yeats, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933; "Vacillation"Share
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing.”— William Butler YeatsShare
“Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”— C.S. LewisShare
“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 GoetheShare
“Not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”— Charles DickensShare