or us celestial guiding
stars.

My inheritance, how wide and fair!
Time is my fair seed-field, of Time I'm heir.

The ethical side of Paul's character is reflected in the appended
quotations from some of his essays:

Sacrifice is always the lot of the divine man.

What is "to do good"? It is to think of other people.

Joy only comes to Faust when at last he is labouring for others.
As Wolsey puts it in _Henry VIII_: "Love thyself last," and "bear
peace in thy right hand."

The Epicurean idea is vile and detestable. If everyone thinks
only of his own indulgence, how can the wherewithal for that
indulgence be forthcoming? What is the use of man having all his
glorious gifts of character and intellect if he does not use
them? Why is man made so different from the animals if he is to
be the mere slave of his passions?

Stoicism finally degenerates into mere pessimism.

The great defect of Puritanism was its hostility to Art; for Art
glorifies and ennobles Life.

"What is the final cause of the Universe?" This is the old
problem of the philosophers. Goethe's lines leap to the mind:

"How, when and where?
The Gods make no reply;
To causes give thy care,
And cease to question why."

Carlyle in "Heroes and Hero Worship" shows the folly of
condemning a man for the faults noted down by the world about
him--by those blind to the true inner secret of his life. "Who
art thou that judgest thy fellow?"

Naturalism is illogical because it postulates Nature without
mind.

If you do not place faith in humanity, what really is the use of
any philosophy of life?

Let us remember St. Paul's injunction, "Bear ye one another's
burdens."

It is a thought to make one ponder, that by far the finest Life
of Christ was written by an agnostic, Renan.

Action is a great joy in life.

When prehistoric man took up a flint and laboriously beat it into
a shape that his brain told him would be of use to him, he laid
the foundations of all civilisation. Man's progress is the story
of brute force laid low by Thought--which is the one really
irresistible influence in the Universe:

"In the world there is nothing great but Man;
In Man there is nothing great but Mind."

It is a perplexing ref