Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man read more

Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in read more

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all read more

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.