It Matters Infinitely Less What

I Hope And Believe My Co-religionists Understand And Admit That I Disclaim Their Theology In Toto, And That By No Twisting Of Language Or Darkening Of Its Meanings Can I Be Made To Have Any Thing Whatever In Common With Them About Religious Matters... They Must Take My Word For It That There Is Nothing In Common Between Their Theology And My Philosophy.

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?

Any One Must See At A Glance That If Men And Women Marry Those Whom They Do Not Love, They Must Love Those Whom They Do Not Marry.

[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.

If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.