Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Young’s line asserts that the only thing that retains true dignity (“majesty”) at the moment of death is moral character. Wealth, rank, beauty, and worldly achievement are stripped away by mortality; what remains, and what can face death without abasement, is virtue—integrity, conscience, and a life lived rightly. The aphorism fits Young’s broader preoccupation with death as a moral reckoning and as a lens that exposes the vanity of social distinctions. It also implies a consolatory ethic: while death is inevitable, one can prepare for it by cultivating virtue, which grants a kind of sovereign composure when all external supports fail.