I Am An Old Man And Have

To Expect An Impossibility Is Madness.

Each Of Us Needs What Nature Gives Us, When Nature Gives Us.

If Any Man Should Conceive Certain Things As Being Really Good, Such As Prudence, Temperance, Justice, Fortitude, He Would Not After Having First Conceived These Endure To Listen To Anything Which Should Not Be In Harmony With What Is Really Good.

To My Great-grandfather I Owed The Advice To Dispense With The Education Of The Schools And Have Good Masters At Home Instead - And To Realize That No Expense Should Be Grudged For This Purpose.

If It Is Not Right Do Not Do It; If It Is Not True Do Not Say It.