I Certainly Had No Idea

[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.

A Queen, Or A Prime Minister's Secretary May Be Shot At In London, As We Know; And Probably There Is No Person Eminent In Literature Or Otherwise Who Has Not Been The Object Of Some Infirm Brain Or Another. But In America The Evil Is Sadly Common.

It Matters Infinitely Less What We Do Than What We Are.

I Never Did A Right Thing Or Abstained From A Wrong One From Any Consideration Of Reward Or Punishment.

Happiness Consists In The Full Employment Of Our Faculties In Some Pursuit.