As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
Rose MacaulayOne should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
Rose MacaulayOnly one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.
Rose Macaulay