I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.