• [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

    Samuel Johnson: [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
    Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.126