Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Children need models rather than critics.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.