Affection

Most people would rather give than get affection.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Affection is responsible for nine tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Self interest is the enemy of all true affection.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.