“The stoic husband was the glorious thing.
The man had courage, was a sage, 'tis true,
And lov'd his country.”

“My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.”

“A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.”

“He came, and no man knew it; no man knew
The wondrous boon to Scotland given;
That there—beneath that grim and wintry blue—
A glorious Poet, strong and true,
Had newly dropp'd from heaven!”

“The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.”

“A stoic of the woods—a man without a tear.”

“That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”

“Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.”

“If the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.”

“The Stoics could only advise the wise man to hold aloof from politics, keeping the unwritten law in his heart. But when Christ said: "Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and unto God the things that are God's," those words, spoken on His last visit to the Temple, three days before His death, gave to the civil power, under the protection of conscience, a sacredness it had never enjoyed, and bounds it had never acknowledged; and they were the repudiation of absolutism and the inauguration of freedom.”