
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Variant: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Source: Notes of Thought (1883), p. 147
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
Variant: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
T. Kosciuszko, 5th day of May 1798. (See The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 30, Princeton 2004, p. 332-333). Note: Thomas Jefferson never did carry out this request.
Version of 5 May 1798
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
How To Get Started On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVu8OWN90eY (10 August 2017)
2017, How To Get Started On YouTube
“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”