It Is Very Sad For A Man

There Is No Intercessor, Angel, Mediator, Between Man And God; For Man Can Speak And God Hear, Each For Himself. He Requires No Advocates To Plead For Men.

Wealth And Want Equally Harden The Human Heart...

The Miraculous Revelation Of The Old Testament And The New, The Miracles Of Famous Men, Jews, Gentiles, Or Christians, — Then Franklin Had No Religion At All; And It Would Be An Insult To Say That He Believed In The Popular Theology Of His Time, Or Of Ours, For I Find Not A Line From His Pen Indicating Any Such Belief.

To Obtain A Knowledge Of Duty, A Man Is Not Sent Away, Outside Of Himself, To Ancient Documents; For The Only Rule Of Faith A Practice, The Word, Is Very Nigh Him, Even In His Heart, And By This Word He Is To Try All Documents.

I Do Not Pretend To Understand The Moral Universe; The Arc Is A Long One. . . . But From What I See I Am Sure It Bends Toward Justice.