Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 14.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Letter to the "Anti-Enlistment League" organized by Jessie Wallace Hughan (20 September 1915)
Context: I know you are brave and unselfish people, making sacrifices for a great principle but I cannot join you. I believe in the present effort which the allies are making to suppress German militarism. I would approve of America going to their assistance. I would enlist to that end, if ever there be a situation where I believe I could do more with my hands than I could with my pen.
“Necessity makes even the timid brave.”
Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter LVII
“Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
