CHAPTER XXIII.
HOLD UP YOUR HEAD.
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
-- TENNYSON.
If there be a faith that can remove mountains, it is faith in one's own power.
-- MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH.
Let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
-- KOSSUTH.
It needs a divine man to exhibit anything divine.

* * * Trust thyself; every breast vibrates to that iron string.

Accept the place that divine Providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Great men have always done so.

* * * Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.
-- EMERSON.
This above all,--to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
-- SHAKESPEARE.
"Yes," said a half-drunken man in a cellar to a parish visitor, a young girl, "I am a tough and a drunkard, and am just out of jail, and my wife is starving; but that doesn't give you the right to come into my house without knocking to ask questions." Another zealous girl declared in a reform club in New York City that she always went to visit the poor in her carriage, with the crest on the door and liveried servants.