Never any state Could rise or stand without this thirst of glory, Of noble works, as well the mould as story. For else what governor would spend his days In envious travel for the public good? Who would in books search after dead men's ways? F. GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE, _Fame and Honor_. Boccaline has this passage of soldiers. They came to Apollo to have their profession made the eighth liberal science, which he granted. As soon as it was noised up and down, it came to the butchers, and they desired their profession might be made the ninth. "For," say they, "the soldiers have this honor for the killing of men: now we kill as well as they; but we kill beasts for the preserving of men, and why should not we have honor likewise done to us?" Apollo could not answer their reasons, so he reversed his sentence, and made the soldier's trade a mystery, as the butcher's is.--SELDEN, _Table Talk: War_. The soldiers say they fight for honor, when the truth is they have their honor in their pocket.--_Ibid._ Certainly, as some men have sinned in the principles of Humanity, and must answer for not being men, so others offend, if they be not more.... For great constitutions, and such as are constellated unto knowledge, do nothing, till they outdo all; they come short of themselves, if they go not beyond others.... A man should be something that all men are not, and individual in somewhat beside his proper name. SIR THOMAS BROWNE, _Vulgar Errors: Of Credulity and Supinity_. Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aëry flight. MILTON, _Samson Agonistes_, 971-974. The extremes of glory and of shame, Like East and West, become the same; No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. BUTLER, _Hudibras_, Part II. Canto I. 271-274. Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name, And free from Conscience, is a slave to Fame. DENHAM, _Cooper's Hill_, 129, 130. The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. DRYDEN, _Don Sebastian_, Act V. Sc. 1. On pend un pauvre malheureux pour avoir volé une pistole sur le grand chemin, dans son besoin extrême; et on traite de héros un homme qui fait la conquête, c'est-à-dire qui subjugue injustement les pays d'un état voisin.... Prendre un champ à un particulier est un grand péché; prendre un grand pays à une nation est _une action innocente et glorieuse_.--FÉNELON, _Examen de Conscience sur les Devoirs de la Royauté_, Direction XXV.