Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end… you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about […]

Johnson said always, ‘that the world was well constructed, but that the particular people disgraced the elegance and beauty of the general fabric.’ In the same manner I was relating once to him, how Dr. Collier observed, that the love one bore to children was from the anticipation one’s mind made while one contemplated them: […]

Little people (i.e., babies) should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particularly striking to some brother, sister, or servant, immediately before the impression is erased by the intervention of newer occurrences.

I would rather have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his […]

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.