"It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards.
"The future of our lives, therefore, depends on employing well the short period of youth.
"If at any moment, my dear, you catch yourself in idleness, start from it as you would the precipice of a gulf.
"You are not, however, to consider yourself as unemployed while taking exercise. That is necessary for your health, and health is the first of all objects."
TITLES OF HONOR AND OFFICE.
He wrote to one of his friends concerning this matter as follows:
"The Senate and Representatives differed about the title of President. The former wanted to style him 'His Highness, George Washington, President of the United States, and Protector of their Liberties.' I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us. I wish that of Mr. would follow them."