St Francis de Sales to St. Jane Francis de Chantal

[Bailey2]

"No, my very dear daughter, it is not necessary to be always and at every moment attentive to all the virtues in order to practice them; that would twist and encumber your thoughts and feelings too  much.  Humility and charity are the master ropes; all the others are attached to them.  We need only hold on to these two: one is at the very bottom and the other at the very top.....They are the mother virtues, and the others follow them the way little chicks follow the mother hen."
St. Francis de Sales to St Jane Francis de Chantal

[Shin]

Little chicks after the mother hen!

Or like little duckies after the mother duck!