His character as one of the fathers of the English language would alone make his works important, even those which have little poe...tical merit. He was as simple as Wordsworth in preferring his homely but vigorous Saxon tongue, when it was neglected by the court, and had not yet attained to the dignity of a literature, and rendered a similar service to his country to that which Dante rendered to Italy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the dicta of the Fathers it is written: Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call ...reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a fathe...r as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodil...y shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.... We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »