Several for Mother’s Day

(Found here)

“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”
~Emily Dickinson

“A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.”
~Gaspard Mermillod

“You see when he forgot his Self his mother took care of his Self, and loved and praised his Self. Our own praises poison our Selves, and puff and swell them up, till they lose all shape and beauty, and become like great toadstools. But the praises of father or mother do our Selves good, and comfort them and make them beautiful.”
~George MacDonald

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, ‘My son, I would sooner see you die than be guilty of a mortal sin;’ words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch’s heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God’s ways.”
~St. Francis de Sales