For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.