[A Friend to Truth], A Defence of Free Masons etc., in Answer to Professor John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy (1797)

However, though I know no arts of conjuration, that can enable me to gain your willing ear; there is something within me, that bids me speak. Addresses to which we listen with reluctance, are sometimes more salutary than those of which we catch every accent with the fondest delight. – Nay, should you yourself be neither pleased nor edified by the very little more I shall advance; who knows, but somebody else may?