“A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill.
Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some
opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at
the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world
he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert
upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of
heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its
very nature is stone.”