What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.
SamuelThe first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.
SamuelThe labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.
Samuel