But should it fail of execution,
that would be quite as well. ----
For one Man only in all the history of the world no statue is
needed. To the glory of one Man we can add nothing save through
obedience to the laws which He brought on earth. ----
Where a weak woman is kindly treated, where children are received
with tenderness, where the hungry are fed and the old cared for,
there is a monument to Christ--such a monument as He would ask to
have built.
The wisdom of Confucius, the self-abnegation of Gautama, the
lofty idealism of Zoroaster, may be fitly commemorated and
perhaps magnified by human monuments or human praise.
But men can build nothing that shall add to the glory of that
life which is the basis of good among all men.
THE VAST IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP
MIschievous stories are told about the ability of great men to do
without sleep.
The foolish young man reads that Napoleon slept only three or
four hours at night--and he cuts down his hours of sleep. He
might better open a vein and lose a pint of blood than lose the
sleep, which is life itself.
Most of the stories told about great men doing without sleep are
mere lies. Some of them are true. For instance, it is
undoubtedly true that Napoleon--an inconceivably foolish,
reckless man in matters affecting his physical welfare--did
deprive himself of sleep in his early years.
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