I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.