"The wall thought it very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it had come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
I showed him my garden, and told him
it was my botanical garden.
"How so?" Said he; "it is covered with weeds."
"Oh," I replied, "that is only because it has not yet
come to its age of discretion and choice.
The weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow,
and I thought it unfair in me to prejudice the soil
towards roses and strawberries."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
