I Am More And More Convinced That

Wisdom And Penetration Are The Fruit Of Experience, Not The Lessons Of Retirement And Leisure. Great Necessities Call Out Great Virtues.

Let Your Observations And Comparisons Produce In Your Mind An Abhorrence Of Domination And Power, The Parent Of Slavery, Ignorance, And Barbarism, Which Places Man Upon A Level With His Fellow Tenants Of The Woods.

I Acknowledge Myself A Unitarian

I Feel Anxious For The Fate Of Our Monarchy, Or Democracy, Or Whatever Is To Take Place. I Soon Get Lost In A Labyrinth Of Perplexities; But, Whatever Occurs, May Justice And Righteousness Be The Stability Of Our Times, And Order Arise Out Of Confusion. Great Difficulties May Be Surmounted By Patience And Perseverance.

Heaven Grant Me That I May Thus Rejoice In My Children, Thus See Them Ornaments To Their Country, And Blessings To Their Parents.