What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh [written in the context of aging —t	
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. – Lafcadio Hearn
