are likely to be jostled to death, and then forgotten.  The world
will allow no such compromises between it and that which does not
belong to it--no two gods must we serve; but (as one has seen in
some old portraits) the horrible glazed eyes of Necessity are always
fixed upon you; fly away as you will, black Care sits behind you,
and with his ceaseless gloomy croaking drowns the voice of all more
cheerful companions.  Happy he whose fortune has placed him where
there is calm and plenty, and who has the wisdom not to give up his
quiet in quest of visionary gain. 

Here is, no doubt, the reason why a man, after the period of his
boyhood, or first youth, makes so few friends.  Want and ambition
(new acquaintances which are introduced to him along with his beard)
thrust away all other society from him.  Some old friends remain, it
is true, but these are become as a habit--a part of your selfishness;
and, for new ones, they are selfish as you are.  Neither member of
the new partnership has the capital of affection and kindly feeling,
or can even afford the time that is requisite for the establishment
of the new firm.  Damp and chill the shades of the prison-house
begin to close round us, and that "vision splendid" which has