“To stab the root of a young tree, to hang crushing burdens upon it, to rend off its early branches – that is not the treatment likely to result in growth such as nature purposed. There will come of it a vicious formation, and the principle applies also to the youth of men.”

“To stab the root of a young tree, to hang crushing burdens upon it, to rend off its early branches – that is not the treatment likely to result in growth such as nature purposed. There will come of it a vicious formation, and the principle applies also to the youth of men.”

— George Gissing