This is peculiarly agreeable, because their friends know, when they visit them, that they neither restrain, nor shackle, nor put them to inconvenience.

In fact it may be truly said that if satisfaction in visiting depends upon a man's own freedom to do as he likes, to ask and to call for what he wants, to go out and come in as he pleases; and if it depends also on the knowledge he has, that, in doing all these things, he puts no person out of his way, there are no houses, where people will be better pleased with their treatment, than in those of the Quakers.
This trait in the character of the Quakers is very general.

I would not pretend, however, to call it universal.

But it is quite general enough to be pronounced a feature in their domestic character.

I do not mean by the mention of it, to apologize, in any manner for the ruggedness of manners of some Quakers.