We think alike, and I cannot condemn in you the sentiments which I daily entertain (EPROUVE).

Life has been given to us as a benefit: when it ceases to be such"-- ! "I have nobody left in this world, to attach me to it, but you.

My friends, the relations I loved most, are in the grave; in short, I have lost, everything.

If you take the resolution which I have taken, we end together our misfortunes and our unhappiness; and it will be the turn of them who remain in this world, to provide for the concerns falling to their charge, and to bear the weight, which has lain on us so long.

These, my adorable Sister, are sad reflections, but suitable to my present condition.
"The day before yesterday I was at Gotha [yes, see above;--and to-morrow, if I knew it, Seidlitz with pictorial effects will be there]....
"But, it is time to end this long, dreary Letter; which treats almost of nothing but my own affairs.