It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly as we wake or sleep we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Stupid as a man say the women: cowardly as a woman say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool.