[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.