"I would have nothing to do," said Perthes, "with the man who cannot be moved to indignation.
There are more good people than bad in the world, and the bad get the upper hand merely because they are bolder.

We cannot help being pleased with a man who uses his powers with decision; and we often take his side for no other reason than because he does so use them.

No doubt, I have often repented speaking; but not less often have I repented keeping silence." [158] One who loves right cannot be indifferent to wrong, or wrongdoing.

If he feels warmly, he will speak warmly, out of the fulness of his heart.

As a noble lady [159] has written: "A noble heart doth teach a virtuous scorn-- To scorn to owe a duty overlong, To scorn to be for benefits forborne, To scorn to lie, to scorn to do a wrong, To scorn to bear an injury in mind, To scorn a freeborn heart slave-like to bind." We have, however, to be on our guard against impatient scorn.