It is not for pleasure that men Put rancours in the vessel of their peace; nor yet primarily for ambition.

Men do not wish to rise by treachery, or to become great through dishonesty.

The object, the ultimate object, which a man sets before himself, is generally a good one.

But he sets it up in so enviable a point of view, his imagination makes it so richly desirable, by being gazed at it becomes so necessary to existence, that its attainment is imperative.

The object is good, but the means of attaining it-the path to the object-ah! there is the slip.