"Myself, I never knew a mother's love.

No doubt I should have been a better man.

Yet, I've often observed that a boy with a loving mother takes her love as a matter of course, and never realizes his riches till he has lost them.
My aunt is the only mother I have known." "And a dear, kind, loving soul she is," said Mrs.Bennington.

"She loves you, if not with mother-love, at least with mother-instinct.
When we two get together, we have a time of it; I, lauding my boy; she, praising hers.

But I go round and round in a circle: my boy.