“Generosity and courage are associate virtues; and the character which possesses the former, must, in the nature of mental arrangements, be adorned with the latter.”

— Laurence Sterne

“What matters it, that, all around, Danger, and guilt, and darkness lie, If but within our bosom's bound We hold a bright, untroubled sky, Warm with ten thousand mingled rays Of…”

— Emily Brontë

“The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure…”

— Italo Calvino

“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

— Helen Keller

“I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.”

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