God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate; and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get--when our will strains after a path we may not follow--we need neither starve from inanition, nor stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden food it longed to taste--and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it.
Si alguna vez nuestras energías son impotentes para seguir el camino que deseamos, no debemos desesperar. Busquemos otro desahogo a nuestra alma, otro placer para nuestro corazón, tan intensos -y acaso más puros- que los que nos son vedados y, si no podemos seguir el sendero que la Fortuna nos cierra, emprendamos otro, aunque sea más escabroso.