Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
