But I have ample gifts to bestow upon thee, if thou wilt abandon the hope that gnaws thy heart, and the realisation of which even _I_ have not the power to foresee.

Be thine ambition human, and I can gratify it to the full.

Men desire four things in life,--love, wealth, fame, power.

The first I cannot give thee, the rest are at my disposal.

Select which of them thou wilt, and let us part in peace." "Such are not the gifts I covet.