“The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.”

“There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough.We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.”

“The brave man slays with a sword, the craven with a wineskin.”

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”

“To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.”

“There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.”