ears with his neighbors, or engaging in suits at law, is free as the Duke of Venice. Montaigne. 17. Some persons can be everywhere at home; others can sit musingly at home and be everywhere. G. D. Prentice. 18. A happy family, is an earlier heaven. Sir John Bowring. 19. The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Bonaparte. 20. Every child should be taught to pay all his debts and to fulfill his contracts exactly in manner, completely in value, punctually at the time. Everything he has borrowed he should be obliged to return uninjured at the time specified, and everything belonging to others which he has lost, he should be required to replace. Timothy Dwight. 21. Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. Locke. 22. A suspicious parent makes an artful Thomas C. Haliburton. child. 23. The family is the heart's fatherland! Hold, then, the family sacred! Look upon it as one of the indestructible conditions of life, and reject every attempt made to undermine it. Jos. Mazzini. 24. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. J. H. Payne. 25. Home, the spot on earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the Alexander Montgomery. rest. 26. One good mother is worth a hundred school masters. In the house she is a loadstone to all hearts, and a load-star to all eyes. George Herbert. 27. Seven thou shalt not neglect: thy wife as long as she lives in peace with thee; thy livelihood as long as it provides for thee; thy ornament as long as it adorns thee; thy friend as long as he is just to thee; thy table companion as long as he understands thee; thy son as long as he cannot take care of himself; and thy guest as long as he does not molest thee. Arabian Proverb. 28. Gentleness is the best way to make a man loved and respected in his family. He makes himself contemptible, when he talks passionately to his servants for no reason but to show his authority. Rule of Life. 29. The surest way of governing, both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogatives. Bishop Hughes. 30. As a looking-glass, if it is a true one, 'faithfully represents the face of him that looks in it, so a wife ought to fashion herself to the affection of her husband; not to be cheerful when he is sad, nor sad when he is cheerful. Erasmus. 31. Discord is everywhere a troublesome companion, but when it is shut up within a family, and happens among relations that it cannot easily part, it is harder to deal with. Cannot be traced. 32. Some men are at home everywhere; others are at home nowhere. E. P. Day. 33. It is very dangerous for any man to find any spot on this broad globe that is sweeter to him than his home. H. W. Beecher. 34. Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house. Thomas Moore. 35. Do not act the lion in thy house; be not tyrannical and cruel toward thy inferiors. Jewish Proverb. 36. A man is, in general, better pleased when he has got a good dinner than when his wife talks Greek. Johnson. CHAPTER VIII. VIRTUE. 'Tis not to any rank confined, Gay. 1. If a man is not virtuous, be becomes vicious. La Bruyère. 2. The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the Sun of Righteousness. Matthew Henry. 3. Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. Beethoven. 4. Virtue is doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. Thos. Paine. 5. If virtue keeps court within, honor will attend without. Old Proverb. |