At the risk of Vachss addiction, I'll pick it up from the campus library.
"Boasting is not courage. He who boasts much cannot do much. Much gesticulation does not prove courage."
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Aristotle
"Honor is like a steep island without a shore: one cannot return once one is outside." Nicholas Bouleau
