I Am Conscious Of Eternal

Manly Natural Religion - It Is Not Joining The Church; It Is Not To Believe In A Creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It Is Not To Keep Sunday Idle; To Attend Meetings; To Be Wet With Water; To Read The Bible; To Offer Prayers In Words; To Take Bread And Wine In The Meeting House; Love A Scape-goat Jesus, Or Any Other Theological Clap-trap.

Disappointment Is Often The Salt Of Life.

Every Man Has At Times In His Mind The Ideal Of What He Should Be, But Is Not. This Ideal May Be High And Complete, Or It May Be Quite Low And Insufficient; Yet In All Men, That Really Seek To Improve, It Is Better Than The Actual Character... Man Never Falls So Low, That He Can See Nothing Higher Than Himself.

The Earnestness Of Life Is The Only Passport To Satisfaction Of Life.

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.