The tenderest and most generous minds, when harshly treated, become generally the most inflexible.

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

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

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.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.