The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to hap…

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I am a raging alcoholic, but I don't want my kids to do the same.

[His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: 'Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if yo…

'[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, th…