"O pusillanimous Heart, be comfortedAnd, like a..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.”

“And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.”

“And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.”

“To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.”

“I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.”

“This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.”

“We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.”

“He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.”

“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”