God sends children for another purpose
than merely to keep up the race-(it is)
to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly symphathies and affections.
Mary Howitt
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. When we first bend over the cradle of our own chil, God throws back the temple door and reveals to us the sacredness and mystery of a father's and mother's love to ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
