Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair. - John Dryden

None but the brave deserves the fair.

In God ’tis glory: And when men aspire,
’Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small,
They've need to show that they can think at all;
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below. Fops may have leave to level all they can;
As pigmies would be glad to lop a man.
Half-wits are fleas; so little and so light,
We scarce could know they live, but that they bite.