What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid upon Gift-love. It must work toward its own abdication. We must aim at making ourselves superfluous. The hour when we can say 'They need me no longer' should be our reward. But the instinct, simply in its own nature, has no power to fulfill this law.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.