However I have preferred this method, as upon paper I can speak without a blush and be heard without interruption.

If my letter displeases you, impute it, dear sir, to yourself.

You have treated me, not like a son, but like a friend.

Can you be surprised that I should communicate to a friend all my thoughts and all my desires?
Unless the friend approve them, let the father never know them; or at least let him know at the same time that however reasonable, however eligible, my scheme may appear to me, I would rather forget it for ever than cause him the slightest uneasiness.
"When I first returned to England, attentive to my future interests, you were so good as to give me hopes of a seat in Parliament.

This seat, it was supposed, would be an expense of fifteen hundred pounds.