It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Life is short and the art long.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

A man can seldom-very, very, seldom-fight a winning fight against his training: the odds are too heavy.