If a man comes to a halt and analyses his motives and distrusts the value of the thing he strives for, then the odds are that his halt is final.

You strive to strive and not to attain.

A man must have that direct practical virtue which forgets itself and sees only its work.

Parsons will tell you that all virtue is self-sacrifice, and they are right, though not in the way they mean.

It may all seem a tissue of contradictions.