I do not think one tear per month is shed in the house, nor the voice of reproof heard, nor the hand of restraint felt.

To educate a second race costs no trouble.

Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute! The result of this watchful and tender interest in his children's education may be judged by a passage in the later part of the Memoirs, where his daughter says: 'When I was writing this page (July 1818), this brother was with me; and when I stopped to make some inquiry from him as to his recollection of that period of his life, he reminded me of many circumstances of my father's kindness to him, and brought to me letters written on his first entrance into the world, highly characteristic of the warmth of my father's affections, and of the strength of his mind.

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