I wanted her disposition trained, and her bodily health attended to.

I said to those good women at Arles--'Look here,--here's a child for you! I don't care how much or how little she knows about accomplishments.

I want her to be sound and sweet from head to heel--a clean mind in a wholesome body.

Teach her self-respect, and make her prefer death to a lie.

Show her the curse of a shrewish temper, and the blessing of cheerfulness.