S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
Discipline
The rule of imitating God can never be successfully proposed but upon Christian principles, such as that this world is a place not of rest, but of discipline.
If a strict hand be kept over children from the beginning, they will in that age be tractable; and if as they grow up the rigour be, as they deserve it, gently relaxed, former restraints will increase their love.
The backwardness parents show in indulging their faults will make them set a greater value on their credit themselves, and teach them to be the more careful to preserve the good opinion of others.
The rebukes which their faults will make hardly to be avoided should not only be in sober, grave, and impassionate words, but also alone and in private.
