...ead. If you have, in such a course, grown gray with unblenched honor, bless God, and die. This should be learned by heart by every young man; but he should also temper it with the fine saying of Thoreau , that he did not wish to practice self-denial unless it was quite necessary. In other words, a man should not be an ascetic for the sake of asceticism, but he should cheerfully accept that attitud...