When I was in Geneva I observed something great which I shall remember and desire as long as I live. There is in that city not only the perfect institute of a perfect republic, but, as a special ornament, a moral discipline which makes weekly investigations into the conduct, and even the smallest transgressions, of the citizens….All cursing and swearing, gambling, luxery, strife, hatred, fraud, etc., are forbidden, while greateer sins are hardly heard of. What a glorious ornament of the Christian religion is such a purity or morals! We must lament with tears that it is wanting with us [Germans], and almost totally neglected. If it were not for the difference of religion, I would have been chained to Geneva forever.