Epigraph

“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mix’t in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, This was a Man!”

—Shakespeare. Julius Cæsar, Act v., sc. 5.

Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni
Mente quatit solida—

—Horace. Odes, iii. 3.