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always be done, let every company, however, afford ſome exerciſe to your good affections, and furniſh you with ſome manner of uſeful reflection. "The induſtrious bee gathers honey from every opening flower."
In the advice which I have hitherto given you, I have chiefly conſidered you my ſon, in your individual capacity and ſuggeſted maxims and rules reſpecting your perſonal improvement and happineſs⟨.⟩ It remains that I add a few hints reſpecting the various important relations in which you ſtand at preſent, or may expect hereafter to be placed⟨.⟩
It is an eſtabliſhed law of nature, that men ſhould depend upon each other for ſubſiſtence and happineſs. A human being in a ſtate perfectly ſolitary and inſulated, would be deſtitute, forlorn, and wretched. Not only will you be neceſſarily dependant upon others for the accomodations of life, and therefore bound in equity to contribute in your turn to their comfortable exiſtence; but one very eſſential part of your perſonal enjoyment muſt ariſe from the exerciſe of the ſocial affections⟨.⟩ The heart which has no object on which to exerciſe its benevolent feelings; no one whom it loves, and by whom it is beloved, is deſtitute of one of the firſt comforts of life, and muſt have a wretched conſciouſneſs of vacuity. From the united ſenſe or obligation and of intereſt, learn to look beyond yourſelf, and to take
