The human being who boasts of being born with- out these impulses places himself on a par with the man born without arms. True greatness lies, not in being devoid of pas- sions, but in being able to control them. To control them we must respect them. To the young man who has let the horse master the driver, and who wants to get possession of the reins, I would say assert your will power, call to the God within, and occupy your mind and exercise your body. Seek a gymnasium or the golf field, or the skating rink, the wood pile or the anvil when your surplus vitality begins to overcome your good sense.
Dumbbells are better aids to morality sometimes than sermons.
Fanny Kemble, the great actress, used to say that a twenty-mile walk a day was her recipe for conquering the devil within her. What she meant was, using her surplus vitality. A devil is only an angel gone astray. Evil is only misdirected good. Every-day thoughts in prose and verse.