Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the "breadwinner ethic."

Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. English Proverb

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.