Manners Easily And Rapidly Mature

They Who Set An Example Make A Highway. Others Follow The Example, Because It Is Easier To Travel On A Highway Than Over Untrodden Grounds.

In Such A World As Ours The Idle Man Is Not So Much A Biped As A Bivalve; And The Wealth Which Breeds Idleness, Of Which The English Peerage Is An Example, And Of Which We Are Beginning To Abound In Specimens In This Country, Is Only A Sort Of Human Oyster Bed, Where Heirs And Heiresses Are Planted, To Spend A Contemptible Life Of Slothfulness In Growing Plump And Succulent For The Grave-worms' Banquet.

After A Child Has Arrived At The Legal Age For Attending School,-whether He Be The Child Of Noble Or Of Peasant,-the Only Two Absolute Grounds Of Exemption From Attendance Are Sickness And Death.

He Who Cannot Resist Temptation Is Not A Man. Whoever Yields To Temptation Debases Himself With A Debasement From Which He Can Never Arise.

The Soul Of The Truly Benevolent Man Does Not Seem To Reside Much In His Own Body. Its Life, To A Great Extent, Is A Mere Reflex Of The Lives Of Others. It Migrates Into Their Bodies, And Identifying Its Existence With Their Existence, Finds Its Own Happiness In Increasing And Prolonging Their Pleasures, In Extinguishing Or Solacing Their Pains.