to live as gently as I can to be no matter where a man to take what comes of good or ill and cling to faith and honor still to do my best and let that stand the record of my brain and hand and then should failure come to me still work and hope for victory to have no secret place wherein I stoop unseen to shame or sin to be the same when I'm alone as when my every deed is known to live undaunted, unafraid of any step that I have made to be without pretense or sham exactly what men think I am to leave some simple mark behind to keep my having lived in mind if enmity to aught I show to be an honest, generous foe to play my little part, nor whine that greater honors are not mine this, I believe, is all I need for my philosophy and creed