“The ‘wages’ of every noble work do yet lie in heaven, or else nowhere.  Nay, at bottom dost thou need any reward?  Was it thy aim and life-purpose, to be filled with good things for thy heroism; to have a life of pomp and ease, and be what men call ‘happy’ in this world, or in any other world?  I answer for thee, deliberately, no?

“The brave man has to give his life away.  Give it, I advise thee—­thou dost not expect to sell thy life in an adequate manner?  What price, for example, would content thee?...  Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a satisfactory manner.  Give it, like a royal heart—­let the price be nothing; thou hast then, in a certain sense, got all for it!”

Well said! we again repeat, O Diogenes Teufelsdrockh!

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Edinburgh:  Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, Paul’s Work.

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