Moral courage is more worth having than physical; not only because it is
a higher virtue, but because the demand for it is more constant.
Physical courage is a virtue which is almost always put away in the
lumber room. Moral courage is wanted day by day.--_Charles Buxton._
It is only in little matters that men are cowards.--_William Henry
Herbert._
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the
man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.--_George Eliot._
He who would arrive at fairy land must face the
phantoms.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Courtier.~--The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is
made up of very hard and very polished people.--_La Bruyere._
With the people of court the tongue is the artery of their withered
life, the spiral-spring and flag-feather of their souls.--_Richter._
~Covetousness.~--Desire of having is the sin of
covetousness.--_Shakespeare._
The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more
through some niggardness or ill grace, in little and inconsiderable
things, than in expenses of any consequence.--_Pope._