CHAPTER XIX.
LIVE UPWARD.
"Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And this thy last deed ere the judgment day." If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
-- PUBLIUS SYRUS.
What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed?
A beast, no more.
Sure He, that made us with such large discourse, Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike Reason To rust in us unused.
-- SHAKESPEARE.
Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny.

It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater.
-- ANONYMOUS.
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime." "Endeavor to be first in thy calling, whatever it may be; neither let anyone go before thee in well doing." O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
-- GEORGE ELIOT.
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and myself have founded empires," said Napoleon to Montholon at St.Helena; "but upon what did we rest the creations of our genius?
Upon force.

Jesus Christ alone founded his empire on love, and at this moment millions of men would die for Him.

I die before my time and my body will be given back to worms.

Such is the fate of him who has been called the great Napoleon.