The noblest spur unto the sons of fame.
Is thirst of honour. [ John Hall ]

If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey. [ Churchill ]

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. [ Pope ]

Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art.
For there thy habitation is the Heart -
The Heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned -
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their Martyrdom,
And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. [ Byron ]

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! [ Burns ]

Books are the immortal sons deifying their sires. [ Plato ]

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. [ Samuel Madden ]

And never shall the sons of Columbia be slaves.
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. [ Robert Treat Paine ]

Words are daughters of earth, but ideas are sons of heaven. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [ GoldonL  ]

The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. [ Bible ]

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous. [ Sterne ]

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Speak no harsh words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. [ Alexander Smith ]

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. [ Lowell ]

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven. [ Johnson ]

To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. [ Euripides ]

When pleasure, like the midnight flower that scorns the eye of vulgar light, begins to bloom for sons of night and maids who love the moon. [ Moore ]

Think of living! Thy life, wert thou the pitifullest of all the sons of earth, is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with. [ Carlyle ]

Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light. [ Bacon ]

Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]