You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.