"Courage is the art of being the..." - Quote by Earl Wilson

“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”

“A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.”

“Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.”

“The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.”

“You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.”

“And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.”

“Is it better to be loved or feared?”

“Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.”

“The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.”