“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;”
“Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.”
“We were emboldened by our ignorance.”
“The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading a work...Those read great works,on the other hand will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of there life.”
“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”
“I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.”