In the Octagon as in any similar repository we come upon plenty of baffled hopes, chagrin in finding a career really ended, absurd over-estimates of self, over-estimates of the good chances of the world, vexation of those who have chosen the wrong path at the unfair good luck of those who have chosen the right.
Morley discusses the frustrations and disappointments that accompany the pursuit of success in life.
Share
More from John Morley
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
Other voices in this conversation
