My father died that we might have this opportunity.

We must use it, or perish with it!" He shook his head and walked away a step or two.
"You have not the true meaning of life," he said.

"Indeed how few of us understand! Obstacles are not an incentive toward attaining impossible things.

They are barriers set up by the kindly disposed gods to inform man that he is opposing destiny when he aspires to things he should not have.

We were not made to fling ourselves against mighty opposition throughout the little daylight we have; to wound ourselves, to deny ourselves, to alienate that winsome sprite Pleasure, to attain something which was not intended for us by the signs of the obstructions placed in our paths.