If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action alone these can increase to thee.
The only business of reason is to arrange and criticise the perceptions. It has neither in itself any means of positive conclusion nor any command to action. When it pretends to originate or impel, it is masking other agencies.
All is not settled when a cause is humanly lost and hopeless; all is settled, when the soul
renounces its effort.