I will tell you all the meaning of life.

Festus, my friend, tell it to the world.
"There was a time when I was happy; the secret of life was in that happiness." "When, when was that ?" answers Festus, "all I hope that answer will decide." PAR.

When, but the time I vowed myself to man?
FEST.

Great God, thy judgments are inscrutable! Then he explains.

"There are men, so majestical is our nature, who, hungry for joy and truth, win more and more of both, and know that life is infinite progress in God.