To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
