Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction.
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
