“A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.” GivingHeartMayChildrenStillsAgeMotherLove IsYouthDevotionGoldenGentleLinksCheeksRecallsBrowsMother's Love Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.” MenGivingYearsWellsHeartMadeSoulHateYouthPraiseBlameIllUglyGentleReceivingDelightedDistaste Author:Plato
“Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.” IfsAgeLawLibertyYouthDisciplineEducationalCriminalsGentleStrictDungeonsStrict Laws Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.” IfsSufferingWaterFateYouthPlanetsReaderHeavyIdiotGentleExceptionMetalsFountainWretchedHideousPoisonousFountain Of Youth Author:William S. Burroughs