The Endurance Of The Inequalities Of Life

The Essence Of Greatness Is Neglect Of The Self.

Minds Vary In Sensitiveness And In Self-power, As Bodies Do In Susceptibility Of Attraction And Repulsion. When, When Shall We Learn That They Are Governed By Laws As Inexorable As Physical Laws, And That A Man Can As Easily Refuse To Obey What Has Power Over Him As A Steel Atom Can Resist The Magnet?

What Is Right Or Duty Without Power ? To Tell A Man It Is His Duty To Submit His Judgment To The Judgment Of The Church, Is Like Telling A Wife It Is Her Duty To Love Her Husband A Thing Easy To Say, But Meaning Simply Nothing. Affection Must Be Won, Not Commanded.

The War Of Good And Evil Is Mightiest In Mightiest Souls, And Even In The Darkest Time The Heart Will Maintain Its Right Against The Hardest Creed.

Where All Are Selfish, The Sage Is No Better Than The Fool, And Only Rather More Dangerous.