It is much easier to become a father than to be one. – Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. – George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. – John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994