I desire to gain your Love and Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceful Life.

A private Life is to be preferred; the Honor and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die