I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

My dreams are all follies.

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.