His notions of law, government, and trade are surprisingly clear and just.

His misfortune is to have chosen a profession at once above him and below him.

Zeal would have made him a prodigy; formality and bigotry would have made him a bishop; but he could neither rise to the duties of his order, nor stoop to its degradations.
He praised my articles in the Edinburgh Review with a warmth which I am willing to believe sincere, because he qualified his compliments with several very sensible cautions.

My great danger, he said, was that of taking a tone of too much asperity and contempt in controversy.

I believe that he is right, and I shall try to mend.
Ever affectionately yours T.B.M.
Lancaster: September 1, 1827.
My dear Father,--Thank Hannah from me for her pleasant letter.