Who said “How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in…”?

“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.”

“My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!”

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

“Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.”

“Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.”

“People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.”

“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.”

“Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.”

“As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room”