Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.