POINTS TO PONDER LXII

From Reader's Digest
A. Purnell Bailey

   Horace Mann, an eminent 19th-century American educator, once delivered an address at the opening of a reformatory for boys. He made the statement that if only one boy were saved from ruin it would pay for all the cost and care and labor of establishing such an institution. Later, in private, a gentleman asked Mann: "Did you not color that a little when you said all the expense and labor would be repaid if it saved [but] one boy?"
   "Not if it was my boy," replied Mann.