Above all things, make him devoted to you--that is generally possible with a little trouble; and let him never see or hear you think or say a low thought, or do a sordid thing.

If he loves you he will imitate you; and while the virtuous habit is forming, he will have the constant thought, 'Would my father have done this?
What would he say, how would he look, if he could see me ?' Imagination is sometimes a saving power." I venture to insert a letter in which he touches delicately on the subject of sexual sin.

He would never speak of it, but this was written in answer to a definite question of mine apropos of a common friend of ours.
"I must confess that I do not realize the strength of this particular temptation, but I am willing to allow for its being almost infinitely strong.

I don't know what has preserved me.

It is the one thing about which I never venture to judge a man in the least, because, from all I hear and see, it must hurry people away in a manner of which those who have not experienced it can not form any conception.
"You ask me what I think the probable effect that yielding to such temptation has on a man's character.