October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.