This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
“Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.”
“All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.”