The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded.
A man's character is his fate.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.