George Boardman the Younger Quote

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.


Reported Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 7


We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.