Part 17

COMPENSATION

Emerson uses it in Nature in the form "Nature's dice are always loaded."]

"Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret."

A similar thought is expressed by Juvenal, Seneca, Cicero, and Aristophanes.]

"Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum." HORACE, EPIST., I. XVIII. 65.

SELF-RELIANCE

"O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies, O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages."--TENNYSON.

"For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within." TENNYSON, In Memoriam, V. I.

"In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended." In the essay on Greatness:

"Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.... Stick to your own.... Follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in."

Carlyle says:

"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." PAUL, I. Thes. v. 21.

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted." SHAKESPEARE, II. Henry VI., III. 2.

"Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus." CLAUDIANUS, De IV. Consul. Honorii, 302.

"Madam, I'm Adam"; "Signa te signa; temere me tangis et angis";

or the inscription on the church of St. Sophia, Constantinople:

"I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time."

"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast." MONTGOMERY, What is Prayer? ]

"Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.... Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find." GOLDSMITH (and JOHNSON), The Traveler, 423-32.

"He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself in his own dungeon." MILTON, Comus, 381-5.

Compare also Paradise Lost, I, 255-7.]

"O mighty poet! Thy works are not as those of other men, simply and merely great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, the stars and the flowers,--like frost and snow, rain and dew, hailstorm and thunder, which are to be studied with entire submission of our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert,--but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seen nothing but accident!"--DE QUINCY.]

"Nec metuis dubio Fortunæ stantis in orbe Numen, et exosæ verba superba deæ?" OVID, Tristia, v., 8, 8.

FRIENDSHIP

In connection with his essay on Friendship, the student should read the two other notable addresses on the same subject, one the speech by Cicero, the famous Roman orator, and the other the essay by Lord Bacon, the great English author.]

"When half-gods go The gods arrive."

HEROISM