Men, pennies and the King

A religion is a thing which, by its nature, does not think of men as more or less valuable, but of men as all intensely and painfully valuable, a democracy of eternal danger. For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value in any of them is that they bear the image of the King.

G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens

This is why I love G. K. Chesterton. He gets it so right with such unique images as examples.