John Locke Quote

The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young.... Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

Sec. 115 - Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)