Oh, but reasoning is so much worse than scolding!... I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!

“Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!”

“Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avo…”

“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts …”

“I have been deceived, before, in the objects whom I have endeavoured to benefit…”