A man's indebtedness ... is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, and ...what circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty s...pace by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »