MARCH 1
The best of all is, God is with us!
Deathbed saying
I can truly say I neither fear nor desire anything from your Lordship; to speak a rough truth, I do not desire any intercourse with any persons of quality in England. I mean, for my own sake; they do me no good, and I fear I can do none for them. …
Were I not afraid of giving your Lordship pain, I would speak yet still further. Methinks you desire I should; that is, to tell you, once for all, every thought that rises in my heart. I will then. At present I do not want you, but I really thin you want me. For have you a person in all England who speaks to your Lordship so plain and downright as I do? Who remembers not the peer but the man, not the earl but the immortal spirit?
to the Earl of Dartmouth, 1764
