I deplore the miserable condition of the French, and think that _we_ can only be guarded from the same scourge by the undaunted efforts of good men....

I severely condemn all inflammatory addresses to the passions of men.

I know that the multitude walk in darkness.

I would put into each man's hands a lantern, to guide him; and not have him to set out upon his journey depending for illumination on abortive flashes of lightning, or the coruscations of transitory meteors.'[31] 11.

_At Milkhouse, Halifax_: 'Not _to take orders_.' 'My sister,' he says, in a letter to Mathews (February 17th, 1794), 'is under the same roof with me; indeed it was to see her that I came into this country.