could cover a continent with his title - deeds, or an ocean with his commerce; compared with conscious rectitude, with a face that never turns pale at the accuser's voice, with a bosom that never throbs with the fear of exposure, with a heart that might be turned inside out and disclose no stain of dishonor? To have done no man a wrong; to have put your signature to no paper to which the purest angel in heaven might not have been an attesting witness; to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude; - this is to be a man.

"He that of such a height hath built his mind,
And reared the dwelling of his thought so strong
As neither fear nor hope can shake the frame
Of his resolved powers; nor all the wind

Of vanity or malice pierce to wrong

His settled peace, or to disturb the same;

What a fair seat hath he; from whence he may

The boundless wastes and wilds of man survey."

[Lines found in one of the books of Beecher's Library.]

A man is never so happy as when he is totus in se ; as when he suffices to himself, and can walk without crutches or a guide. Said Jean Paul Richter: "I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

Man is the only great thing in the universe. All the ages have been trying to produce a perfect model. Only one complete man has yet been evolved. The best of us are but prophecies of what is to come.

What constitutes a state?

Not high-raised battlement or labored mound,
Thick wall or moated gate;

Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned;
Not bays and broad-armed ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;
Not starred and spangled courts,

Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride.
No: men, high-minded men,

With powers as far above dull brutes endued

In forest, brake, or den,

As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, –
Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,
Prevent the long-aimed blow,

And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain.

God give us men.

WILLIAM JONES.

A time like this demands

Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands:
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;

In speech right gentle, yet so wise; princely of mien,
Yet softly mannered; modest, deferent,

And tender-hearted, though of fearless blood.

EDWIN ARNOLD

CHAPTER II.

DARE.

The Spartans did not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they are. - AGIS II.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the high Roman fashion, and make death proud to take us. SHAKESPEARE.

Better, like Hector, in the field to die,
Than, like a perfumed Paris, turn and fly.

Let me die facing the enemy. — - BAYARD.
Who conquers me, shall find a stubborn foe.
Courage in danger is half the battle.

No great deed is done

By falterers who ask for certainty.

LONGFELLOW.

BYRON. PLAUTUS.

Fortune befriends the bold. - DRYDEN.

GEORGE ELIOT.

Tender handed stroke a nettle,

And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,

And it soft as silk remains.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

AARON HILL.
BOVÉE.

Man should dare all things that he knows is right,
And fear to do nothing save what is wrong.

Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows softness in the upper story.

PHEBE CARY.

LOWELL.

O friend, never strike sail to fear. Come into port grandly, or sail with God the seas

EMERSON.

To stand with a smile upon your face against a stake from which you cannot get away that, no doubt, is heroic. But the true glory is resig nation to the inevitable. To stand unchained, with perfect liberty to go away, held only by the higher claims of duty, and let the fire creep up to the heart, this is heroism.-F. W. ROBERTSON.

"STEADY, men! Every man must die where he stands!" said Colin Campbell to the Ninety - third