Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

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.

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

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

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.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.