What are relations?

Famous quotes containing the word relations:

    “I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)