Relationships and Family

Not merely a chip of the old ‘block’, but the old block itself.

We begin our public affections in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good.

Never glad confident morning again!

Just for a handful of silver he left us,

I shall but love thee better after death.

I love thee with the breath,

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Abortions will not let you forget.

My mother groaned! my father wept.

Love seeketh not itself to please,

Your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

Never pain to tell thy love

He who binds to himself a joy

Only by love can men see me, and know me, and come unto me.

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.

Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,

And always keep a-hold of Nurse

Those have most power to hurt us that we love.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.