Who said “My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the…”?

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

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”

“How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.”

“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”

“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”

“'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!”

“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”

“The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”

“Easy writings curse is hard reading.”