To go into a truly ordered and well governed child-garden, and see all the little children busy making things for the Christmas tree, or for birthday and new year's gifts, for all the friends they know or fancy, we shall see sufficient proofs that love is the truest quickener of industry, and love-inspired industry the true sweetener of the disposition and temper.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
But this partiality in a biographer, though to be allowed and even commended as a quickener of insight, should not be strong enough to warp his mind from its judicial level.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell
So, if we may say it, our quickener bends Himself over all our deadness, and by His own warmth reanimates us.
"Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers"
Alexander Maclaren