“I cannot allow you to sell the mill. It must remain in your possession as long as one member of your family exists, for it belongs to the history of Prussia. I lament, however, to hear that you are in circumstances of embarrassment, and forthwith enclose a check large enough to arrange your affairs. Consider me always
“Your affectionate neighbor,
“Frederick William.”
My boy, be just. You can if you will, and there is no reason in all the varied activities and experiences of life, why you should not.
“To thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Do not be just from a mercenary idea, for that is only another form of injustice. But be just because it is right, and right makes men, and men are the great need of the hour.
“Poise then, the cause in Justice’s equal scales,
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.”