I do not believe in blind fate.

We were not given wills only to have them broken.

The function of a limb is not to be maimed, nor severed from the body.

A limb is to serve a man; just so a man and his actions are to serve the ends of a power higher and nobler than he.

If he refuse to serve that power, he is like the mortifying limb,--a thing of evil to be cut off.