For a man to be a boy, and a good boy still, he must be a thorough man.

The man that's not manly can never be a good boy to his mother.

And you can't keep true to your mother, except you remember Him who is father and mother both to all of us.

I wish my Marion were here to teach you as she taught me.

She taught me to pray, Cosmo, as I have tried to teach you--when I was in any trouble, just to go into my closet, and shut to the door, and pray to my Father who is in secret--the same Father who loved you so much as to give you my Marion for a mother.