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

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

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.

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.