Wealth And Want Equally Harden The Human

Self-denial Is Indispensable To A Strong Character, And The Highest Kind Comes From A Religious Stock.

Temperance Is Corporeal Piety; It Is The Preservation Of Divine Order In The Body.

The Roman Christian Mythology (and Theology) Discourages The Vice Of Licentiousness, And So This Is Better Than The Heathen, But It Encourages Bigotry, Hypocrisy, Cant, And Many Another Vice Which The Older Mother Of Abominations Kept Clear From.

I Do Not Pretend To Understand The Moral Universe; The Arc Is A Long One, My Eye Reaches But Little Ways; I Cannot Calculate The Curve And Complete The Figure By The Experience Of Sight, I Can Divine It By Conscience. And From What I See I Am Sure It Bends Towards Justice.

It Is Not From The Tall Crowded Workhouse Of Prosperity That Men First Or Clearest See The Eternal Stars Of Heaven.