There Is No Theory Of A God,

The Lesson Taught Us By These Kindly Commentators On My Present Experience Is That Dogmatic Faith Compels The Best Minds And Hearts To Narrowness And Insolence.

[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.

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

All People Interested In Their Work Are Liable To Overrate Their Vocation. There May Be Makers Of Dolls' Eyes Who Wonder How Society Would Go On Without Them.

Even If Their Outward Fortunes Could Be Absolutely Equalized, There Would Be, From Individual Constitution Alone, An Aristocracy And A Democracy In Every Land. The Fearful By Nature Would Compose An Aristocracy, The Hopeful By Nature A Democracy, Were All Other Causes Of Divergence Done Away.