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

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.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later and then you still have to decide what to do.

Damen found himself alongside Jord. ‘If you want to live, ride fast.’

White-faced, Jord took one look at his expression and said, ‘He’s not coming.’

‘We’re outnumbered,’ said Damen, ‘but if you run, you might still make it out.’

‘If we’re outnumbered, what are you going to do?’

Damen drove his horse onward, ready to take up his own place on the front line.

He said, ‘Fight.