• So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

  Haniel Long
  American writer, poet, journalist 1888-1956
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. stability
2. measures
3. because
4. loyalty
5. modeled
6. pacts

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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. by : Haniel Long

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