Say "Yes" and "No" to a child and stick to it. This is the beginning of discipline. 258 The way to spoil a child is to give it all it wants and require nothing in return. The way to make a child grow up sensible and unselfish is to give it little, and require of it much. For it is not what others do for us that benefits us, but what we do for ourselves and others. 259 Some one truly said, the best way for a man to train up a child in the way it should go, is to travel that way sometimes himself. 260 _I Kings, i, 6_--"His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, 'Why hast thou done so?'" A young man, as he was going to the place of execution, desired to whisper something into his mother's ear; but when she came, instead of whispering, he bit off her ear, telling her, that it was because she did not chastise him for his faults when a boy, he was brought to such an unhappy end. 261 Could it be believed that a child should be forced to learn the rudiments of a language which he is never to use, and neglect the writing a good hand, and casting accounts? --_Locke._ 262 Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. --_Milton._ 263 Children, a bond of union than which the human heart feels none more endearing. 264 What children hear at home soon flies abroad. 265 CHILDREN. I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must not make so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant chair, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them. --_A. E. Kittredge._ 266 Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts. 267 What is there in nature so dear to man as his own children? --_Cicero._ 268 The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. --_Cicero._ 269 His cares are eased with intervals of bliss: His little children, climbing for a kiss, Welcome their father's late return at night. --_Dryden._ 270 A BAD EXAMPLE. Whatever parent gives his children good instruction, and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand, and poison in the other. 271 Children have neither past nor future; and what scarcely ever happens to us, they enjoy the present. --_La Bruyere._ 272 An honorable life is the best legacy a father can leave to his children. 273 Children should not be flattered, but they should be encouraged. They should not be so praised as to make them vain and proud, but they should be commended when they do well. 274