Recommend virtue to your children it alone not money can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Beethoven can write music thank God but he can do nothing else on earth.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
