Children in the Pasture

These are thoughts from an old 1840 text written to show how the Mothers of England influenced the great writers.

"Accomplishments and worldly attainments may be derived from others, but holiness, self-control, forbearance, love of truth, integrity, and all the other virtues of the heart, are only the Mother's gift....

"...so that that genius which some would produce in a preconceived system, or implant by stratagem, or enforce by application, with her may be only the watchful labour of love."

Art credit: Children in the Pasture by Luigi Chialiva