Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.