And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.