"My dear Middleton, I can produce more effect by one caning than
twenty floggings. Observe, you flog upon a part the most quiescent;
but you cane upon all parts, from the head to the heels. Now, when
once the first sting of the birch is over, then a dull sensation comes
over the part, and the pain after that is nothing; whereas a good
sound caning leaves sores and bruises in every part, and on all the
parts which are required for muscular action. After a flogging, a boy
may run out in the hours of recreation, and join his playmates as well
as ever, but a good caning tells a very different tale; he cannot move
one part of his body without being reminded for days by the pain of
the punishment he has undergone, and he is very careful how he is
called up again."

"My dear sir, I really had an idea that you were excessively lenient,"
replied Middleton, laughing; "I am glad that I am under a mistake."

"Look at that cub, Doctor, sitting there more like a brute than a
reasonable being; do you imagine that I could ever lick it into shape
without strong measures? At the same time, allow me to say, that I
consider my system by far the best. At the public schools, punishment
is no check; it is so trifling that it is derided: with me punishment
is punishment in the true sense of the word, and the consequence is,
that it is much more seldom resorted to."

"You are a terrorist, Bonnycastle."

"The two strongest impulses in our nature are fear and love. In
theory, acting upon the latter is very beautiful; but in practice, I
never found it to answer--and for the best of reasons, our self-love
is stronger than our love for others. Now I never yet found fear to