Loss and Gain. May 25
“He has yet to learn what losing his life to save it means, Amyas. Bad men have taught him (and I fear these Anabaptists and Puritans at home teach little else) that it is the one great business of every man to save his own soul after he dies; every one for himself; and that that, and not divine self-sacrifice, is the one thing needful, and the better part which Mary chose.”
“I think,” said Amyas, “men are enough inclined to be selfish without being taught that.”
Westward Ho! chap. vii. 1854.