Prosperity Makes Few Friends.

Prosperity Makes Few Friends.

The Most Absurd And Reckless Aspirations Have Sometimes Led To Extraordinary Success.

With Kings, Nations, And Private Individuals, The Strongest Assume To Themselves Rights Over The Weakest, And The Same Rule Is Followed By Animals, By Matter, By The Elements, So That Everything Is Performed In The Universe By Violence. And That Order Which We Blame With Some Appearance Of Justice Is The Most Universal, Most Absolute, Most Unchangeable, And Most Ancient Law Of Nature.

If A Man Is Endowed With A Noble And Courageous Soul, If He Is Painstaking, Proud, Ambitious, Without Meanness, Of A Profound A Deep-seated Intelligence, I Dare Assert That He Lacks Nothing To Be Neglected By The Great And Men In High Office, Who Fear, More Than Other Men, Those Whom They Cannot Dominate.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- That Is To Say, Some Of The Most Enlightened Men On Earth, In The Most Philosophical Of All Ages -- Have Been Believers In Jesus Christ; And The Great Cond?, When Dying, Repeated These Noble Words, "yes, I Shall See God As He Is, Face To Face!".