I Certainly Had No Idea

For My Own Part, I Had Rather Suffer Any Inconvenience From Having To Work Occasionally In Chambers And Kitchenthan Witness The Subservience In Which The Menial Class Is Held In Europe.

[i] Wish That The Land-tax Went A Little More According To Situation Than It Does. 'tis Really Ridiculous, How One Has To Pay Five Times As Much As Another, Without Any Reason That Ever I Heard Tell.

Leisure, Some Degree Of It, Is Necessary To The Health Of Every Man's Spirit.

But Is It Not The Fact That Religion Emanates From The Nature, From The Moral State Of The Individual? Is It Not Therefore True That Unless The Nature Be Completely Exercised, The Moral State Harmonized, The Religion Cannot Be Healthy?

There Have Been Few Things In My Life Which Have Had A More Genial Effect On My Mind Than The Possession Of A Piece Of Land.