“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”
“Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.”
“We arrive in the rooms tangled up in a web of complexity and confusion. Our lives are unmanageable because our minds are unmanageable.” – p. 134”
“A boy is a dangerous animal.”
“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.”
“Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”