Don't be fond of any Thing, or think that for your Interest, which makes you break your Word, quit your Modesty, be of a Dissembling, Suspicious, or Outragious Humour; which puts you upon Hating any Person, and enclines you to any Practice, which wont bear the Light, and look the World in the Face. For he that values the Virtue of his Mind, and the Dignity of his Reason, before all other Things, is easy, and well fortified, and has nothing for a Tragedy to work on; He laments under no Misfortune, and wants neither Solitude nor Company; And which is still more, he neither flies Death, nor pursues it; but is perfectly indifferent about the Length, and Shortness of his Life. And if he was to expire this Moment, the want of Warning would not surprise him; He'd ne'er struggle for more time, but go off with Decency and Honour. Indeed, he is solicitous about Nothing but his own Conduct, and for fear he should fail in the Functions of Reason, Prudence, and Generosity.