38.
Mysterious to all thought,
A mother's prime of bliss,
When to her eager lips is brought
Her infant's thrilling kiss.—Keble.
39. Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained.—Jean Paul.
40. No bones are broken by a mother's fist.—Russian.
41. No hay tal madre come la que pare. [There is no mother like her who bears.]—Spanish.
42.
O l'amour d'une mere! amour quo nul n'oublie!
Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie!
Table toujours servie au paternel foyer!
Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont tout entier.
[O mother-love! love that none ever forgets!
Wonderful bread, that God divides and multiplies!
Table always spread beside the paternal hearth!
Each one has his part of it, and each has it all!]
—Victor Hugo.
43. One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
44. One scream of fear from a mother may resound through the whole life of her daughter.—Jean Paul.
45.
Seem I not as tender to him
As any mother?
Ay, but such a one
As all day long hath rated at her child,
And vext his day, but blesses him asleep.
—Tennyson.
46. Sind die Kinder klein, so treten sie der Mutter auf den Schooss; sind die Kinder gross, so treten sie der Mutter auf das Herz. [When the children are small they tread upon the mother's breast; when they are large they tread upon the mother's heart.]—German.
47. So moder, so dogter. [Like mother, like daughter.]—Frisian.