“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us
“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something
“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience