If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.