Else thou wilt meet with failure, ill success, let and hindrance. These are the Laws ordained of God — these are His Edicts; these a man should expound and interpret; to these submit himself, not to the laws of Masurius and Cassius.(16)

(16) Famous Roman jurists.

CXLV

Remember that not the love of power and wealth sets us under the heel of others, but even the love of tranquillity, of leisure, of change of scene — of learning in general, it matters not what the outward thing may be — to set store by it is to place thyself in subjection to another. Where is the difference then between desiring to be a Senator, and desiring not to be one: between thirsting for office and thirsting to be quit of it? Where is the difference