In the same manner if a Quaker had recovered from an indisposition, he would never say, in speaking of the circumstance, that he had fortunately recovered, but he would say, that he had recovered, and "that it was a favour." Luck, chance, or fortune, are allowed by the Quakers to have no power in the settlement of human affairs.
It is not usual with Quakers to beg ten thousand pardons, as some of the world do, for any little mistake.

A Quaker generally on such an occasion asks a persons excuse.
The Quakers never make use of the expression "christian name." This name is called christian by the world, because it is the name given to children in baptism, or in other words, when they are christened, or when they are initiated as christians.

But the Quakers are never baptised.

They have no belief that water-baptism can make a christian, or that it is any true mark of membership with the christian church.
Hence a man's christian name is called by them his first name, because it is the first of the two, or of any other number of names, that may belong to him.
The Quakers, on meeting a person, never say "good morrow," because all days are equally good.

Nor in parting with a person at night, do they say "good evening," for a similar reason, but they make use of the expression of "farewell." I might proceed, till I made a little vocabulary of Quaker-expressions; but this is not necessary, and it is not at all consistent with my design.