I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Great necessities call out great virtues.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.