Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
The result was that if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion but a blight bred in the cloudy damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
After a century of striving after a year of debate after a historic vote health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.