His blood was cool and temperate, and yet his heart was open to all the softer emotions.

He had no appetite for luxury; no desire for pomp; no craving for wealth.

Among thousands who were revelling in sensuality, he kept himself pure and immaculate.

If any man could have said, I will be virtuous; I, of myself, unaided, trusting to my own power, guarding myself by the light of my own reason; I will walk uprightly through the world, and will shed light from my path upon my brethren, he might have said so.

He attempted it, and history shows us the result.