You have always got some moon struck theories, some wild, visionary and impracticable ideas, which would work first rate, if men were angels and earth a paradise.

Now don't be so serious, old fellow; but you know on this religion business, you and I always part company.

You are always up in the clouds, while I am trying to invest in a few acres, or town lots of solid _terra firma_." "And would your hold on earthly possessions, be less firm because you looked beyond the seen to the unseen ?" "I think it would, if I let conscience interfere constantly, with every business transaction I undertook.

Now last week you lost $500 fair and square, because you would not foreclose that mortgage on Smith's property.

I told you that 'business is business,' and that while I pitied the poor man, I would not have risked my money that way, but you said that conscience would not let you; that while other creditors were gathering like hungry vultures around the poor man, you would not join with them, and that you did not believe in striking a man when he is down.