The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.