“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
