It is well with him for a time;--but he has closed the door of his Elysium too rigidly.

Those without gradually become stronger than his friends within, and so he falls.
But may not the door be occasionally opened to an outsider, so that the exterior force be diminished?
We know how great is the pressure of water; and how the peril of an overwhelming weight of it may be removed by opening the way for a small current.

There comes therefore the Statesman who acknowledges to himself that he will be pregnable.
That, as a Statesman, he should have enemies is a matter of course.
Against moderate enemies he will hold his own.

But when there comes one immoderately forcible, violently inimical, then to that man he will open his bosom.

He will tempt into his camp with an offer of high command any foe that may be worth his purchase.