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356 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
you may both again enjoy this invaluable blessing. Perhaps it would sound equivocally were I to express a wish that
you would not attend so much to public business, but remember what Horace says of a wise and good man: " Ultra
quam satis est, virtutem si petat ipsam." Your horse, I
hope, is your only physician; and as to an apothecary, I
hope you will not require even an ass. My health, which
you kindly inquire after, was never better, saving the complaint in my sight, which, however, gives me no pain. The
one eye is quite useless, and two years ago I got an attack
upon the other; at that period, indeed, my friend, I wanted
consolation; but I bless God I found resources in my mind
which very soon prepared me with resignation for the worst.
As to my circumstances, my dear sir, they are quite easy ;
rendered so by the provision my good father-in-law made
for my children : were they otherwise, I know no man who
could sooner induce me to invade my maxim against incurring pecuniary obligations than yourself, for between the
professions and actions of my friend John Jay, I never yet
have known one instance of a variance. My spirits, too,
are good; and I have a good circle of acquaintances, not
only in town, but in the pleasant villages in its neigbour-
hood, where I frequently walk ten or twelve miles before
dinner. Upon the whole, I believe few persons enjoy more
social and convivial hours than I do; and though I do not
so often partake of the " feast of reason, and the flow of
soul," as I did at New-York, yet I ought rather to be thankful for my situation than to repine at my share of the public calamity, which has involved so many families in ruin.
My children (I acknowledge it gratefully) have been permitted to remain at Kinderhook; which, by-the-by, is
become the Athens of the county of Albany; Harry is
represented to me as a lively boy, and has been examined
and approved at Yale College: I hope the poor fellow will
not be reproached with the malignity of his father; on my
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 2 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000377 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 356 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. you may both again enjoy this invaluable blessing. Perhaps it would sound equivocally were I to express a wish that you would not attend so much to public business, but remember what Horace says of a wise and good man: " Ultra quam satis est, virtutem si petat ipsam." Your horse, I hope, is your only physician; and as to an apothecary, I hope you will not require even an ass. My health, which you kindly inquire after, was never better, saving the complaint in my sight, which, however, gives me no pain. The one eye is quite useless, and two years ago I got an attack upon the other; at that period, indeed, my friend, I wanted consolation; but I bless God I found resources in my mind which very soon prepared me with resignation for the worst. As to my circumstances, my dear sir, they are quite easy ; rendered so by the provision my good father-in-law made for my children : were they otherwise, I know no man who could sooner induce me to invade my maxim against incurring pecuniary obligations than yourself, for between the professions and actions of my friend John Jay, I never yet have known one instance of a variance. My spirits, too, are good; and I have a good circle of acquaintances, not only in town, but in the pleasant villages in its neigbour- hood, where I frequently walk ten or twelve miles before dinner. Upon the whole, I believe few persons enjoy more social and convivial hours than I do; and though I do not so often partake of the " feast of reason, and the flow of soul," as I did at New-York, yet I ought rather to be thankful for my situation than to repine at my share of the public calamity, which has involved so many families in ruin. My children (I acknowledge it gratefully) have been permitted to remain at Kinderhook; which, by-the-by, is become the Athens of the county of Albany; Harry is represented to me as a lively boy, and has been examined and approved at Yale College: I hope the poor fellow will not be reproached with the malignity of his father; on my |
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