My passions, always fretful and excitable, were never satisfied except when I was employed in some way which enabled me to feed and keep alive the irritation which was their and my very breath of life.

With such a spirit, how could I be what men style and consider a good man?
What folly to expect it.

Virtue is but a sleepy, in-door, domestic quality--inconsistent with enterprise or great activity.

There are no drones so perfect in the world as the truly orthodox.

Hence the usual superiority of a dissenting, over an established church.