What attention ought one to pay to children, even in the most trifling things! … Adelaide almost always tells truth. Education has confirmed this virtue in her, she never attempts the smallest disguise to try to hide any of her faults; and yet, notwithstanding this, I have found her, for some days past, making stories from the gaiety of her heart; and, to amuse herself, Dainville last week was relating to us a very comical dream which he had, and at which we laughed very much. The next day Adelaide dreamt also, and acquainted me with her dream, to which I paid little attention; and, two days after, she had another: and, in short, this morning, she has related so pretty a tale, that I am convinced she composed it at her leisure, and she has since acknowledged, that she invented them all. I had no great difficulty to make her understand, if it is wicked to tell lyes for the sake of interest, it is still more inexcusable to do it without any motive. I have often told you, said I, what a mean and detestable vice lying is, and how much it is despised. I must tell you yet more, that those who are guilty of it can never be esteemed, nor thought amiable. There are numbers of people who amuse themselves by composing Histories, which without any scruple they pass off for truth, because they do no harm to any body. These people have no other intention in exaggerating and in telling lyes, but to entertain their acquaintance, and make themselves agreeable in company; but they mistake the matter, and dishonour themselves by it in the most ridiculous and foolish manner: and a man, who tells lyes in this way, for his own pleasure, is never believed in any thing. Whatever he says, let it be ever so agreeable, can never interest you, because he never can raise your attention or gain your confidence; and he is, indeed, scarcely listened to.