Man's fate in battle is worked out before the war begins.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.

The first and last essential of an efficient soldier is character; without it he will not long endure the perils of modern war.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.