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XI If they see it necessary to oppose your inclinations in any respect, never imagine they do it out of any other motive but love to you. They are ever solicitous for your welfare, and from their experience, are capable of judging what will hinder or promote it.
XIl. Check every temptation to independence by such considerations as these. My parents have the tenderest regard for me. I have experienced their love on various occasions. My father, who has taken such kind care of me hitherto; and my mother, who so often supported me at her own breast, and has shown the most earnest attention to my welfare ever since, can never restrain me from any thing which would make me truly happy, nor advise me to do any thing, but what is for my good. They have lived longer, seen and known more, and are wiser than myself. I am determined, therefore, to subdue my own inclinations, and contentedly suffer myself to be led, and governed by their counsels and directions.
XIII. Never hide any transaction of consequence from them. What you wish to conceal are most commonly such things as are hurtful to yourselves. Therefore, if you have been imprudent, acknowledge and confess it to those who, by their love to you and their knowledge, are calculated to give the best advice, and to mitigate, if not prevent, the impending bad consequence.
