Essays — First Series

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the footprints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name;—the way, the thought, the good shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.