32. They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child.—Leigh Hunt.
33. To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.—Auerbach.
34. To make a boy despise his mother's care is the straightest way to make him also despise his Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his father and his father's house, the straightest way to make him deny his God and his God's heaven.—Ruskin.
35. Unworthy offspring brag most of their worthy descent. —Danish.
36.
Vom Vater hab'ich die Statur,
Des Lebens ernstes Fuhren;
Von Mutterchen die Frohnatur
Und Lust zu fabulieren.
[My father's stature I possess
And life's more solemn glory;
My mother's fund of cheerfulness,
Her love for song and story.]—Goethe.
37. Was der Mutter an's Herz geht, das geht dem Vater nur an die Kniee. [What goes to the mother's heart goes only to the father's knees.]—German.
38. Wer nicht Kinder hat, der weiss nicht, warum er lebt. [Who has not children knows not why he lives.]—German.
39. Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.—Bible.
40. Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.—Bible.