"The simple and salient fact is, we do not get hold of little
children soon enough. An unfortunate childhood is the sure
prophecy of an unfortunate life. Implant lessons of virtue and
well-doing in earliest childhood, says Plato. Give me the child,
says Lord Bacon, and the state shall have the man. Let the very
playthings of your children have a bearing upon the life and work
of the coming man, says Aristotle. It is the early training that
makes the master, says the German poet. Train up a child in the
way he should go; and, when he is old, he will not depart from it,
says the Revealed Word."--_Sarah B. Cooper, before the National
Conference of Charities and Correction._