Courage from hearts, and not from numbers, grows.—Dryden.
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning courage. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision.—Napoleon.
Courage our greatest failings does supply.—Waller.
To bear is to conquer our fate.—Campbell.
Moral courage is more worth having than physical; not only because it is a higher virtue, but because the demand for it is more constant. Physical courage is a virtue which is almost always put away in the lumber room. Moral courage is wanted day by day.—Charles Buxton.
It is only in little matters that men are cowards.—William Henry Herbert.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.—George Eliot.
He who would arrive at fairy land must face the phantoms.—Bulwer-Lytton.
Courtier.—The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard and very polished people.—La Bruyère.
With the people of court the tongue is the artery of their withered life, the spiral-spring and flag-feather of their souls.—Richter.