Washington Quotes on Family
"...the hours allotted for study, if really applied to it, instead of running up & down stairs, & wasted in conversation with any one who will talk with you, will enable you to make considerable progre..."
George Washington to George Washington Parke Custis | Sunday, January 07, 1798
More"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence—true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo & withstand the shocks of a..."
From George Washington to Bushrod Washington | Wednesday, January 15, 1783
More"avoid Gaming—This is a vice which is productive of every possible evil. equally injurious to the Morals & health of its votaries—It is the child of Avarice—the brother of inequity—& father of Mischief..."
George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 15 January 1783 | Wednesday, January 15, 1783
More"Unless some one pops in, unexpectedly, Mrs. Washington and myself will do what I believe has not been [done] within the last twenty years by us, that is to set down to dinner by ourselves."
George Washington to Tobias Lear | Monday, July 31, 1797
More"Love is a mighty pretty thing; but like all other delicious things, it is cloying; and when the first transports of the passion begins to subside, which it assuredly will do, and yield—oftentimes too ..."
George Washington to Elizabeth Parke Custis | Sunday, September 14, 1794
More"...happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a persons own mind—than on the externals in the world"
From George Washington to Mary Ball Washington | Thursday, February 15, 1787
More"A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with."
Letter to Dr. Boucher | Sunday, May 13, 1770
More"...a good moral character is the first essential in a man...It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."
To George Steptoe Washington | Sunday, December 05, 1790
More"I retain an unalterable affection for you, which neither time or distance can change."
George Washington to Martha Washington | Friday, June 23, 1775
More"...it is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
From George Washington to Harriot Washington | Sunday, October 30, 1791
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