In the evening my wife insisted to read this journal, and, finding in it such explicit instances of licentiousness, she was much a...ffected and told me that she had come to a resolution never again to consider herself my wife; though for the sake of her children and mine, as a friend, she would preserve appearances. When I saw her in great uneasiness, and dreaded somewhat--though not with much apprehension--her resolution, I was awaked from my dream of licentiousness, and saw my bad conduct in a shocking light.... She comforted me with hopes of my amendment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The parent in charge is the disciplinarian.... I do not believe in letting discipline wait for another parent to handle it, nor do... I think the father or mother should be allowed to become a shadowy figure who walks in the door and has to play the bad guy in the house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[I] am now struggling to enter the portals of the profession in which is locked up the passport which is to conduct me to all that... I am destined to receive in life. The entrance is steep and difficult, but my chiefest obstacles are within myself. If I knew and could master myself, all other difficulties would vanish. To overcome long-settled habits, one has almost to change "the stamp of nature"; but bad habits must be changed and good ones formed in their stead, or I shall never find the pearls I seek.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad.... But let your words and conduct be perfectly ...pure--such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek.... If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If someone does something we disapprove of, we regard him as bad if we believe we can deter him from persisting in his conduct, bu...t we regard him as mad if we believe we cannot. In either case, the crucial issue is our control of the other: the more we lose control over him, and the more he assumes control over himself, the more, in case of conflict, we are likely to consider him mad rather than just bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no ty...rant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility; and tell me what they require of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves--and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not... to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't b...e "bad." That category only exists in the adult mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, and... have not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »