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  ...tears of his mother." "Love droops, youth fades, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all," sings Oliver Wendell Holmes. "At first," says Beecher, "babies feed on the mother's bosom, but always on her heart." "Stories first heard at a mother's knee," affirms Ruffini, "are never wholly forgotten--a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years."
"AN OUNCE OF MOTHER,"
says the Spanish proverb, "is a pound of clergy." The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.   " says another writer. "Men are what their mothers made them," says Emerson, in study of Napoleon's idea; "you may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber." "It is generally admitted," says Theodore Hook, "and frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are derived from their mothers." "It is well for us," says Bishop Hare,...   Beecher, Henry Ward

Excerpt from The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future · This quote is tagged Mothers · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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