Emotions and Feelings

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

A little tumult , now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Cowardice is the unpardonable sin in a man.

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Coward, n . One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is, perhaps, cowardice.

It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Courage has need of reason, but it is not reason’s child; it springs from deeper strata.

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

This was really a compliment to be pleased with— a nice little handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed . . . dairy-maid instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which one is dosed with by the pound.

There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to.