"Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyng Right as yow list."
"It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebræ which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing—"carry a message to Garcia."
"The good one, after every action, closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page Now if my act be good, as I believe, It cannot be recalled. It is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. The rest is yours."
"Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle—this way or that."
"Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious."
"How my achievements mock me! I will go meet them."
"Action is transitory—a step, a blow— The motion of a muscle—this way or that— Tis done; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed."