They believe, therefore, that stillness and quietness, both of spirit and of body, are necessary for them, as far as these can be obtained.

For how can a man, whose earthly passions are uppermost, be in a fit state to receive, or a man of noisy and turbulent habits be in a fit state to attend to, the spiritual admonitions of this pure influence?
Hence one of the first points in the education of the Quakers is to attend to the subjugation of the will; to take care that every perverse passion be checked; and that the creature be rendered calm and passive.

Hence Quaker children are rebuked for all expressions of anger, as tending to raise those feelings, which ought to be suppressed.

A raising even of their voices beyond due bounds is discouraged, as leading to the disturbance of their minds.

They are taught to rise in the morning in quietness, to go about their ordinary occupations with quietness, and to retire in quietness to their beds.