Character

The wisdom of the Ancients and the Moderns has never been able to answer the question: “Why is life?”  Those whose lot has been cast in the shadows and in the lonely paths of sorrow ask themselves the question again and again.  But there comes no answer.  Life remains the great perplexity. 

Yet there is an answer hidden in the human heart.  It is the instinct for the achievement and making of character.  Fame, riches, power, merely intensify the misery of existence if they be obtained at the price of character.  The declining years, with the shadowy goal, terrorize only they who have ignored this great truth. 

The building of character is the highest calling of man.  It is life’s answer to the challenge of death.