"The evolutionary urge drives man to seek for intenser forms of fulfillment, since his basic urge is for more life, more consciousness, and this contentment has an air of stagnation that the healthy mind rejects. (This recognition lies at the centre of my own 'outsider theory': that there are human beings to whom comfort means nothing, but whose happiness consists in following an obscure inner-drive, an 'appetite for reality'.)"

"Mothers obtain it from their children, and men from their dogs."

"Material comforts ... are small, but the soul clings to them: it considers them every day and from very close; in the end they hide the rest of the world from it."

"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meager life than the poor."

"Comfort is tedious when it lasts too long."

"That comfort comes too late; 'Tis like a pardon after execution; That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me; But now I am past all comforts here, but Prayers."

"And He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!"

"The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man."

"Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more."

"Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup."

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"

"Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann, Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang; Wer hohes Muths sich rühmen kann Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang."

"Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Länder Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut."

"Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it."

"In the ebb and flow of battle there are usually only brief flashes of bravery before the brave become the dead."

"Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignores ad desperationem formidine properare."

"What's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us."

"He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest; he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on And wore us out of act."

"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."

"I'm not a brave man. My self-image is of a very small and weak person. In point of fact, I'm almost six feet, and solidly built. But I was a late bloomer. I spent those formative early high-school years as a pudgy little science whimp. I'm still scared of big men with deep voices."

"Pure was the temperate Air, an even Calm Perpetual reign'd, save what the Zephyrs bland Breath'd o'er the blue expanse."

"The noonday quiet holds the hill."

"'Tis Noon;—a calm, unbroken sleep Is on the blue waves of the deep; A soft haze, like a fairy dream, Is floating over wood and stream; And many a broad magnolia flower, Within its shadowy woodland bower, Is gleaming like a lovely star."

"How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone! When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity!"

"O haste to shed the sovereign balm— My shattered nerves new string: And for my guest serenely calm, The nymph Indifference bring."

"You have to hold back yourself. Calm down; your heart will prompt you to achieve nothing."

"The psychological comfort comes from calm, tranquillity and reassurance."

"Calmness is psychological comfort."

"Audentes fortuna juvat."

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

"Fortes fortuna adjuvat."

"Dem Muthigen hilft Gott."

"Who combats bravely is not therefore brave: He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave."

"Audentes deus ipse juvat."

"Omne solum forti patria est."

"Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant."

"How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."

"True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world."

"Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro."

"Ardentem frigidus Ætnam insiluit."

"O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of his children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet or dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly."

"Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause."

"The brave Love mercy, and delight to save."

"Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe: They took the spear, but left the shield."

"'Tis more brave To live, than to die."