The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.