“ To conduct the opening minds of their sweet charge through the several periods of their progress, to assist them in each period in throwing out the latent seeds of reason and ingenuity, and in giving fresh accession of light and virtue; and, at length, with all these advantages, to produce the young adventurers upon the great theatre of human life, to act their several parts in the fight of their friends, of society, and mankind ”

“ The pilot being one of those self-sufficient men who think every hint given them from others, in the way of their profession, derogatory from their understanding, took it as an affront to be taught his art, and instead of complying with the captain's request, actually crowded more sail than the vessel had carried before. ”

“ The elder brother, astonished, and melting with this generosity, replied, that since the divine Providence had appointed him to suffer, it would be wicked and unjust to permit any other to die for him, especially a brother, to whom he was infinitely obliged. ”

“ IT may truly be said, that if persons are undutiful to their parents, they seldom prove good to any other relation.
The honour which children are required to give to their father and mother, includes in it love, reverence, obedience, and relief. It is usual with Providence to retaliate men's disobedience to their parents in kind: commonly our own children shall pay us home for it. ”

“ Be faithful to her bed; for she is the mother of thy children. OF all the pleasures that endear human life, there are none more worthy the attention of a rational creature than those that flow from the mutual return of conjugal love. ”

“ A married woman should not be desirous of attracting the eyes of any man but those of her husband.
He that allows himself to taste those pleasures which he denies his wife, acts like a man who would enjoy his wife to oppose those enemies to whom he has already surrendered.
Leonidas king of Sparta, suspecting a conspiracy was formed against him, fled to the temple of Minerva for shelter, whereupon Cleombrutus, his son-in-law, seized the government. ”

“ The business of the latter is to bend and soften her male pupil by the charms of her conversation, and the softness and decency of her manners, for social life, for politeness of taste, and the elegant decorum and enjoyments of humanity: and to improve and refine the tenderness and modesty of her female pupil, and form her to all those mild domestic virtues, which are the peculiar characteristics and ornaments of her sex. ”

“ The father ought to lay out and superintend their education; the mother to execute and manage the detail of which she is capable. The former should direct the manly exertions of the intellectual and moral powers of his child ”

“ When minds are thus engaged by the ties bf reciprocal sincerity, each alternately receives and communicates a transport that is inconceivable to all but those who are in this situation: hence arises that heart-ennobling solicitude for one another's welfare; that tender sympathy which alleviates affliction, and that participated pleasure which heightens prosperity and joy itself.
A good wife makes the cares of the world sit easy, and adds a sweetness to its pleasures, she is a man's best companion in prosperity and his only friend in adversity ”

“ The best proof undoubtedly which parents can give of their affection to theie children, is to endeavour to make them wise and good. The first class of duties which parents owe their children, respects their natural life ”

“ In order therefore to fit the child for acting his part wisely and worthily as a man, as a citizen, and acreature of God, both parents ought to combine their joint wisdom, authority, and power, and each apart to employ those talents which are the peculiar excellency and ornament of their respective sex. ”

“ Where shall we find the person who hath received from any one benefits so great, or so many, as children from their parents? To them it is they owe their very existence, and consequently all the pleasures and enjoyments of life. ”

“ AS the vexations which parents receive from their children hasten the approach of age, and double the force of years, for the comforts which they reap from them are balm to all other sorrows, and disappoint the injuries of time. ”

“ But the inhuman monsters, without being the least affected with the tears either of the father or of the son, answered, that they both must die; the father because he was proscribed, and the son because he had concealed his father. Then a new contest of tenderness arose who should die first ”

“ The second order of duties regards the intellectual and moral life of their children, or their education in such arts and accomplishments as are necessary to qualify them for performing the duties they owe to themselves and others. ”

“ They rowed all that night and the next morning, when the sun arose, as if heaven would reward the gallantry and piety of this young man, they discried land, which proved to be the mountains Mozambique, in Africa, not far from a Portuguese colony. Thither they all safe arrived, where they remained untill the next ship from Lisbon passed by and carried them to Goa.
CONJUGAL AFFECTION.
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Take unto thyself a wife, and obey the ordinance of God: take unto thyself a wife, and become a faithful member of Society. ”