“From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die. William Shakespeare
“Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate…. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.Thomas Fuller
“My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy. Guillaume de Salluste (Seigneur Du Bartas)
“Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur
“’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free,’Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right,’Twill be in the valley of love and delight. Joseph Brackett