having always held that it must needs be a great satisfaction to an aged father himself to put his children into the way of governing his affairs, and to have power during his own life to control their behaviour, supplying them with instruction and advice from his own experience, and himself to transfer the ancient honour and order of his house into the hands of those who are to succeed him, and by that means to satisfy himself as to the hopes he may conceive of their future conduct.
beti uste izan baitut gozamen handia izan behar zaiola aita zahar bati berak seme-alaben ezartzea bere eginkizunen zuzentzean, haien ibilera ikertzen ahal duelarik, daukan esperientziaren araberako irakaskuntza eta aholkurekin hornituz, eta berak ere etxearen aitzineko ohore eta antolabidearen bideratzea bere ondokoen eskuetara, eta hortik ere haien etorkizuneko bideratzetik izan ditzakeen esperantzez askiestea.