The resources of the great Ruler of the Universe are not so scanty and so stern as to deny to men the divine privilege of Free Will; all of us can carve out our own way, and God can make our very contradictions harmonize with His solemn ends.

You have before you an option.

Honorable and generous love may even now work out your happiness and effect your escape; a frantic and interested passion will but lead you to misery and doom." "Do you pretend, then, to read the Future ?" "I have said all that it pleases me to utter." "While you assume the moralist to me, Signor Zicci," said Glyndon, with a smile, "if report says true you do not yourself reject the allurements of unfettered love." "If it were necessary that practice square with precept," said Zicci, with a sneer, "our pulpits would be empty.

Do you think it matters, in the great aggregate of human destinies, what one man's conduct may be?
Nothing,--not a grain of dust; but it matters much what are the sentiments he propagates.

His acts are limited and momentary; his sentiments may pervade the universe, and inspire generations till the day of doom.