The bravest man I ever knew was so timid that he shrunk from a shower bath and jumped like a girl if any one clapped hands suddenly behind him.

Cowardice is a matter of character.

Brave men are they who face danger coolly when it is their duty to do so, not because they do not fear danger but because they will not run away from a duty.

Cowards often go into danger boastfully and without seeming to care a fig for it, merely because they are conscious of their own fault and afraid that somebody will find it out.

Cowards are men or women or boys, who lack character, and a genuine coward is very sure to show his lack of moral character in other ways than by shunning danger.