“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”

“Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.”

“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”

“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.”

“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”

“No one can be happy without virtue.”
Beatus autem esse sine virtute nemo potest

“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”

“Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
Eagle with crest of red and gold,
These men were born to drill and die.
Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
Make plain to them the excellence of killing
And a field where a thousand corpses lie.”