My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbours no harm.

"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.