Some time ago, I read in the paper of a gentleman being taken up before a
magistrate. What was the charge against him? Nothing very serious, you will say. He
was found wandering in the fields. He was asked where he was going, and he said he
was not going anywhere. He was asked where he came from, and he said he did not
know. They asked him where his home was, and he said he had none. They brought
him up for wandering. As what? A dangerous lunatic. The man who has no aim or
object in life, but just wanders about anywhere or nowhere, acts like a dangerous
lunatic, and assuredly he is not morally sane. BA8
Are you like a vessel which is left to the mercy of the winds and waves? Ignoble
condition! Perilous case! What! are you no more than a log on the water? I should not
like to be a passenger in a vessel which had no course marked out on the chart, no
pilot at the wheel, no man at the watch. Surely, you must be derelict, if not
water-logged; and you will come to a total wreck before long. BA9
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