It is with flowers as with moral qualities, the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much, vices almost always too little.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard even than what he condemns of his own character information and abilities.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people’s wrath.