Oh I wish you was well enough to come to us tomorrow to dinner and stay the Evening ... I would Serve you and help you at dinner, and divert your pain after dinner by good Musik.

I am never happier than when I am performing good offices for good people; and the most friendly office one can perform is to make worthy characters acquainted with one another.

I am much indebted to you for your attention to my commission about the books, and am well pleased that those which went above the prices I noted, were not purchased. sensible that I labour grievously under the malady of Bibliomanie, I submit to the rule of buying only at reasonable prices, as to...

I receive with pleasure this recognition & renewal of our former acquaintance, and shall be happy to continue it by an exchange of epistolary communications. your’s to me will be always welcome; your first gives me information in the line of Natural history, & the second (not yet recieved...

I find that my earliest affections are my strongest.

My blessings to your little ones, love to you all, and friendly how d-ye’s to my good neighbors.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk, & restorative cordial.

experience of every loss which can rend the human heart has taught me that time and occupation are the only medicines for grief.

come as you will, or as you can, it will always be joy enough to me.

I regret that distance separates us so widely. an hour of conversation would be worth a volume of letters. but we must take things as they come.

wherever I have been, it has been my good fortune to meet with or to make ardent and affectionate friends.