Manliness

"The Christian Union" 1856

"Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule. You can no more exercise your reason if you live in constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life, if you live in constant terror of death. If you think it right to differ from the times, and make it a point of morals, do it, however rustic, however antiquated, however pedantic, it may appear; do it, not from insolence, but seriously and grandly, as a man who wore a soul in his own bosom, and did not wait till it was breathed into him by the breath of fashion."

— Author unknown

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