An old knave is no babe. [ Proverb ]

A babe is a mother's anchor. [ Beecher ]

Flowers are words
Which even a babe may understand. [ Bishop Coxe ]

Alexander himself was once a crying babe. [ Proverb ]

Bent over her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew. [ John Langhorne ]

My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace.
Secret joys and secret smiles. Little pretty infant wiles. [ William Blake ]

I have given suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me. [ William Shakespeare ]

The little babe up in his arms he bent, who with sweet pleasure and bold blandishment 'gan smile. [ Spenser ]

How wayward is this foolish love, that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. [ William Shakespeare ]

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting-place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. [ Tupper ]