Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice, leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemy's atrocities; and pity for the oppressed classes, when separated from the moral law as a whole, leads by a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a reign of terror.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.