“Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.”

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”

“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]”

“Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.”

“Courage and fear were one thing too.”

“She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.”