No one shall meet him as an enemy till he is condemned; I desire this of you, and charge you to repeat it to the others." The haruspex endeavored to represent to his superior what a scandal would arise from this untimely clemency; but Ameni did not allow him to talk, he demanded his ring back, called a young priest, delivered the precious signet into his charge, and desired him to get into his chariot that was waiting at the door, and carry to Pentaur the command, in his name, to return to the temple of Seti.
The haruspex submitted, though deeply vexed, and asked whether the guilty boys were also to go unpunished.
"No more than Pentaur," answered Ameni.

"But can you call this school-boy's trick guilt?
Leave the children to their fun, and their imprudence.

The educator is the destroyer, if he always and only keeps his eyes open, and cannot close them at the right moment.

Before life demands of us the exercise of serious duties we have a mighty over-abundance of vigor at our disposal; the child exhausts it in play, and the boy in building wonder-castles with the hammer and chisel of his fancy, in inventing follies.

You shake your head, Septah! but I tell you, the audacious tricks of the boy are the fore-runners of the deeds of the man.