A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.