Chapter XIV. The Royal Path to Freedom - p.157

There are many when taken to task for not doing what propriety declares ought to be done, usually reply that they may do as they please with their own. They emphasize the statement, "What is ours, is ours," and we believe no one has the right to tell us what we should or should not do with our own. This form of logic may appear sound on the surface, or rather it may look good at a distance, but it changes completely upon closer acquaintance. The fact is that the idea, "We may do as we please with our own," is contrary to all true propriety, all principle, all science and all . law. And whoever lives in the belief that he may do as he pleases will finally come to a place where he will not have the privilege to please to do anything. He will be in complete bondage to adverse circumstances which he himself has created, and absolutely at the mercy of a fate for which he alone is responsible.

When a person does as he pleases he usually follows the whims of fancy or obeys the commands of a perverse nature. He therefore disregards the real law of his being, and to disregard this law is to