“A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers.”
“The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.”
“It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.”
“A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.”
“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality so badly that nobody ever managed to put it together again;”