Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.
If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.
Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.
Nations do not plunge at once into ruin - governments do not change suddenly - the causes which bring about the final blow, are scarcely perceptible in the beginning; but they increase in numbers, and in power; they press harder and harder upon the e...
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
