The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other.

More from Of Parents and Children

• But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. "Of Revenge," Essays (1597-1625).
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.