But we will not talk about it here." "Why not ?" asked Valencia, looking up.

"Are we so very naughty as to be unworthy to listen ?" "And are these mountains," asked Claude, "so ugly and ill-made, that they are an unfit pulpit for a sermon?
No; tell me what you mean.

After all, I am half in jest" "Do not courtesy, pity, chivalry, generosity, self-sacrifice,--in short, being of use,--do not our hearts tell us that they are the most beautiful, noble, lovely things in the world ?" "I suppose it is so," said Valencia.
"Why does one admire a soldier?
Not for his epaulettes and red coat, but because one knows that, coxcomb though he be at home here, there is the power in him of that same self-sacrifice; that, when he is called, he will go and die, that he may be of use to his country.

And yet--it may seem invidious to say so just now--but there are other sorts of self-sacrifice, less showy, but even more beautiful." "Oh, Mr.Headley, what can a man do more than die for his countrymen ?" "Live for them.

It is a longer work, and therefore a more difficult and a nobler one." Frank spoke in a somewhat sad and abstracted tone.
"But, tell me," she said, "what all this has to do with--with the deep matter of which you spoke ?" "Simply that it is the law of all earth, and heaven, and Him who made them .-- That God is perfectly powerful, because He is perfectly and infinitely of use; and perfectly good, because he delights utterly and always in being of use; and that, therefore, we can become like God--as the very heathens felt that we can, and ought to become--only in proportion as we become of use.