Don’t hurt your children’s self-respect by punishing them in the presence of company. Wait until the company is gone, then dust both hemispheres.
Don’t lie to your children, and then wonder where they learned to lie.
Don’t be a fool, and if you’ve got plenty of income, overdress your children and send them to school to make the children of some poor, conscientious man dissatisfied because their dad can’t give them as nice clothes.
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
The young man or woman who is ashamed of his or her father or mother, is a fool and too low down for me to spit on.
To hear boys cuss you’d think cussing was a part of the school curriculum.
The woman who tries to rid herself of the responsibilities of maternity, is as red-handed and black-hearted a murderess as she who chokes to death her 12-months old babe.
Of all the contemptable, triple-extract of hell, God-forsaken, hell-born, infamous, vile, stinking and damnable people, the murderer who disguises under the title of doctor is the worst.
A gambler, if he wins, is a thief, and if he loses, he’s a fool. So he’s both a thief and a fool, no matter how you look at it.