[on Being Deaf:] We Must

Scarcely Anything That I Observed In The United States Caused Me So Much Sorrow As The Contemptuous Estimate Of The People Entertained By Those Who Were Bowing The Knee To Be Permitted To Serve Them.

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

My Own Feeling Of Concern Arises From Seeing How Much Moral Injury And Suffering Is Created By The Superstitions Of The Christian Mythology.

Day-thoughts Feed Nightly Dreams; And Sorrow Tracketh Wrong, As Echo Follows Song.

I Would Not Exchange My Freedom From Old Superstition, If I Were To Be Burned At The Stake Next Month, For All The Peace And Quiet Of Orthodoxy, If I Must Take The Orthodoxy With Peace And Quiet.