"Many a child goes astray, not because there is a want of virtue at home, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much as flowers need sunbeams. Children look little beyond the present moment. If a thing pleases, they are apt to see it; if it displeases, they are prone to avoid it. If home is the place where faces are sour and words harsh, and fault-finding is ever in the ascendant, they will spend as many hours as possible elsewhere. "
[New York day book: vol. 28 (4 Dec 1878)]
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