It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Theodore Parker, (Aug 24 1810-1860), US theologian, pastor, scholar; He repudiated much traditional Christian dogma, putting in its place an intuitive knowledge of God derived from man's experience of nature.