JUNE 13
When I had lived upwards of thirty years, I looked upon myself to stand just in the same relation to my father as I did when I was ten years old. And when I was between forty and fifty, I judged myself fully as much obliged to obey my mother in everything lawful, as I did when I was in my leading-strings.
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Do nothing which you know your parents disapprove.
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I call those cruel parents, who pass for kind and indulgent; who permit their children to contract habits which they know must be afterwards broken.
Obedience to Parents
I frequently find a want of more light; but I want heat more than light.
Letter, 3rd May, 1777
