Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country and is a living lesson.
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result he was a better wiser and kinder man.
Save for thee and thy lessons man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.
Nature is man's religious book with lessons for every day.
Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man no wonder why the score's a mess.