Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. – Honore de Balzac

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. – Alexis de Tocqueville