Die Nüchternheit des Morgens ist nur eine negative Trunkenheit. - Jean Paul

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Sprecht nicht: wir wollen leiden; denn ihr müßt. Sprecht aber: wir wollen handeln; denn ihr müßt nicht.

When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.