It Matters Infinitely Less What We Do

Happiness Consists In The Full Employment Of Our Faculties In Some Pursuit.

I Certainly Never Believed, More Or Less, In The "essential Doctrines" Of Christianity, Which Represent God As The Predestinator Of Men To Sin And Perdition, And Christ As Their Rescuer From That Doom. I Never Was More Or Less Behuiled By The Trickery Of Language By Which The Perdition Of Man Is Made Out To Be Justice, And His Redemption To Be Mercy.

Scarcely Anything That I Observed In The United States Caused Me So Much Sorrow As The Contemptuous Estimate Of The People Entertained By Those Who Were Bowing The Knee To Be Permitted To Serve Them.

The Last Degree Of Honesty Has Always Been, And Is Still Considered Incompatible With Statesmanship. To Hunger And Thirst After Righteousness Has Been Naturally, As It Were, Supposed A Disqualification For Affairs.

Self-denial Is Taught Much Better By Inspiring The Love Of Our Neighbor, Than By The Prohibition Of Innocent Comforts And Pleasures. Spirituality Is Much Better Taught By Making Spiritual Things The Objects Of Supreme Desire, Than By Commanding An Ostentatious Avoidance Of The Enjoyments Of Life.