Be humble, submissive, and obedient to those who have a just claim to your subjection, by nature and providence: such are parents, masters, or tutors, whose commands and laws have no other tendency than your truest good. Be always obsequious and respectful, never bold, insolent, or saucy, either in words or gestures.
Let your body be on every occasion, pliable, and ready to manifest, in due and becoming ceremonies, the inward reverence you bear towards those above you.
By these means, by timely and early accustoming yourselves to a sweet and spontaneous obedience in your youthful stations and relations, your minds being habituated to that which is so indispensably your duty, the task of obedience in farther relations will be performed with greater ease and pleasure; and when you arrive at manhood, there will remain in your well-managed minds no presumptuous folly, that may tempt you to be other than faithful and good citizens.
TO SUPERIORS.
Among superiors, speak not till you are spoken to, or are asked to speak.
Hold not your hand, nor anything else before your mouth when you speak. Come not very near the one you speak to.
If your superior speak to you while you sit, stand up before you give an answer.
Speak not very loud, nor too low. Answer not one who is speaking to you, till he is done.
Strive not with your superiors, in argument or discourse; but easily submit your opinion to their assertions.