I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French
infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the
time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my
little hands folded in hers, and caused me to repeat the Lord's
Prayer.--_Thomas Randolph._
The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life
which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the
cherished child even in the base, degraded man.--_George Eliot._
When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit,
and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He
called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her
wife, but simply mother,--mother of all living creatures. In this
consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.--_Luther._
There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong,
deathless love, save that within a mother's heart.--_Hemans._
~Motive.~--The morality of an action depends upon the motive from which we
act. If I fling half-a-crown to a beggar with intention to break his
head, and he picks it up and buys victuals with it, the physical effect
is good; but with respect to me, the action is very wrong.--_Johnson._
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral
position, is mightier than steam, or caloric, or lightning.--_Chapin._
Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose
motive for action is the hope of reward.--_Kreeshna._
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become
feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We
must keep the germinating grain away from the light.--_George Eliot._
Every activity proposes to itself a passivity, every labor
enjoyment.--_Jacobi._
~Mourning.~--Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a
voice that is still!--_Tennyson._