Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 11 June 1784 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.