We are tomorrow's past. Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness. My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. |