A mother's tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart. [ Mlle. de Guerin ]

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. [ Washington Irving ]

Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol. [ T. Gautier ]

In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. [ George Eliot ]

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots. [ Hawthorne ]

It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life. [ Mountford ]