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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
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Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
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I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days,...
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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