When old and grey will he feelingly remember a mother's tender piety,
And the touching recollection of her prayers shall arrest the strong man in his sin.
Select not to nurse thy darling one that may taint his innocence,
For example is a constant monitor, and good seed will die among the tares.
The arts of a strange servant have spoiled a gentle disposition:
Mother, let him learn of thy lips, and be nourished at thy breast.
Character is mainly moulded by the cast of the minds that surround it:
Let then the playmates of thy little one be not other than thy judgment shall approve:
For a child is in a new world, and learneth somewhat every moment,
His eye is quick to observe, his memory storeth in secret,