This first society is called a Family. It is the root of every other society. It is the beginning of order, and kind affections, and mutual helpfulness and provident regulations … My child, love your family. Its strength is your strength, its interests are your interests; one stream of life flows through every member of it … East and West, and North and South, reaching on every side to the great Ocean, and all these together make up that large society call a State; so large is it, that you must stretch your imagination to conceive properly of its extent; it contains thousands of families whom you have never seen, nor probably will ever see; yet of all this you are a part, and joined to it in a most intimate and binding connection, like a limb to the body, or a single shoot to a large tree. These are all governed by the same rules; they speak the same language; they make war or peace together. My child, love your Country! it contains all you love …

… not all the fame of Nelson, or Lord Wellington would reconcile me to destroying the happiness of an affectionate wife, and whom duty has already compelled me to desert so long and so cruelly.