Volume Ii Part 31 (2/2)

374.

LEAVING IN HADES.-We must leave many things in the Hades of half-conscious feeling, and not try to release them from their shadow-existence, or else they will become, as thoughts and words, our demoniacal tyrants, with cruel l.u.s.t after our blood.

375.

NEAR TO BEGGARY.-Even the richest intellect sometimes mislays the key to the room in which his h.o.a.rded treasures repose. He is then like the poorest of the poor, who must beg to get a living.

376.

CHAIN-THINKERS.-To him who has thought a great deal, every new thought that he hears or reads at once a.s.sumes the form of a chain.

377.

PITY.-In the gilded sheath of pity is sometimes hidden the dagger of envy.

378.

WHAT IS GENIUS?-To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

379.

VANITY OF COMBATANTS.-He who has no hope of victory in a combat, or who is obviously worsted, is all the more desirous that his style of fighting should be admired.

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