As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.