That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenl…

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term 'Art,' I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul…

If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their mi…

So he died, because for a split second he got brave. But not then. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched …

'I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to li…