In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.