Never contradict them in any sense whatever; but if you think that any other way, different from what they direct, would do better, you may inform them of it, but do it with the greatest modesty and circumspection; and if they comply with what you say, it is well, but if they do not, add no more, but obey as you were first directed. Always make the business of the day the first object, and then if you have any leisure hours, you may improve them to the best advantage and for your own profit and satisfaction. Never allow yourself to be peevish and fretful about your work, food, dress, or any thing of the like nature, even if the business does not go on to suit you; for this will only make the business more irksome and fatiguing, without any kind of benefit to yourself. 3. Do not expect even from your best endeavors wholly to escape without censure. For the mind of youth is so fickle, it would be very strange if you did not sometimes go astray, and not do so well as you might; and if you do, you must expect reproof, and rebuke, and you ought to take it kindly, and endeavour to do better for the future. But even if you should always do your best, you must expect that you will sometimes do wrong, even for want of knowledge; and you cannot expect that people will always exercise that patience, so but what they will many times chide you, and find fault, even when you have done your best. All this you ought to bear with patience without a murmuring word: for if you are conscious to yourself that you have done as well as you could, even a sharp rebuke need not trouble you; for you may gain some knowledge by it, and therefore it may terminate for your own advantage. Besides, if you bear it with patience, and try to convince them by your future conduct that you used your best endeavors to have every thing done as it should be, this will have a tendency to convince them of their error, and cause them to exercise more patience for the future. Always pay a proper respect to your parents, guardians, or masters, and ever be submissive to their commands. Never try to aggravate them, even if they should find fault at trifles; that is, to treat the matter with a kind of indifferency, though you did not care to displease them; for this will only make them more fretful for the future.―― But if you are sensible that you have done wrong, you ought to confess it, and endeavour to reform; but if you think you are not to blame let the whole matter pass in silence. 4. You must not only pay the greatest attention to your domestic concerns, but a proper decorum in all your words and actions must be attended to. Your leisure hours should be employed in reading useful books, which will be most likely to furnish your mind with a store of religious and moral improvements. Read the characters of those ladies who have lived virtuous and pious lives, and endeavour to imitate their examples.