As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we lov… - Adam Smith

To desire you to read my book over and mark all the corrections you would wish me to make...would oblige me greatly: I know how much I shall be benefitted and I shall at the same time preserve the pretious right of private judgement for the sake of which our forefathers kicked out the Pope and the Pretender. I believe you to be much more infalliable than the Pope, but as I am a Protestant my conscience makes me scruple to submit to any unscriptural authority.

What can be added to the happiness of a person who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.