He did not stop working till he died.

His life was of one piece, beautiful, noble.

"The general of a large army," said he, "may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant." He acted conformably to this thought, and to another of his sayings.

"If I am building a mountain, and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed of my work.

But if I have placed but one basketful on the plain, and go on, I am really building a mountain." Many beautiful and noble things are related concerning the character of Confucius,--of his courage in the midst of danger, of his humility in the highest position of honor.