Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes About Children

• If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Children, Solitude, Quality

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.245, Reprint Services Corporation

• The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Bebé, Niños, Padre

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.237, Reprint Services Corporation

• Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Baby, Nature, Children

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1873). “Oldport Days”, p.218

• Cuánto de lo que el mundo llama egoísmo no es más que generosidad con muros estrechos, una preocupación demasiado exclusiva por mantener a la esposa en el lujo o hacer ricos a los hijos.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Children, Wall, Luxury

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.234, Reprint Services Corporation

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