Idleness is a moth or canker of the mind, and the fruits thereof are wicked cogitations, evil affections, and worse actions; corrupt trees without fruit, twice dead and plucked up by the roots, engendering in the mind a loathing of God and godliness.
Three things children receive of their parents: life, maintenance, and instruction. For these three they owe other three; for life they owe love; for maintenance they owe obedience; for instruction they owe reverence. For life, they must be loved as fathers; for maintenance, they must be obeyed as masters; for instruction, they must be reverenced as tutors.Sermons, 207