Every Expert Was Once A Beginner.

Nothing Brings Out The Lower Traits Of Human Nature Like Office-seeking. Men Of Good Character And Impulses Are Betrayed By It Into All Sorts Of Meanness.

In Avoiding The Appearance Of Evil, I Am Not Sure But I Have Sometimes Unnecessarily Deprived Myself And Others Of Innocent Enjoyments.

You Know I Am Given To Antiquarian And Genealogical Pursuits. An Old Family Letter Is A Delight To My Eyes. I Can Prowl In Old Trunks Of Letters By The Day With Undiminished Zest.

Is This Not True--that In Proportion To The Value Of Their Estates The Extremely Wealthy Pay Far Less Taxes Than Those Of Moderatemeans? Compare The Amount Paid By Millionaires With The Amount Paid By Ordinary Citizens. I Believe That In Proportion To Their Estates They Pay Less Than Half As Much As Ordinary Citizens, Whereas They Ought To Pay More.

The Gloomy Theology Of The Orthodox--the Calvinists--i Do Not, I Cannot Believe. Many Of The Notions--nay, Most Of The Notions--which Orthodox People Have Of The Divinity Of The Bible, I Disbelieve. I Am So Nearly Infidel In All My Views, That Too, In Spite Of My Wishes, That None But The Most Liberal Doctrines Can Command My Assent.