“The undersigned informs honorable men that he has found him unpossessed of courage to make satisfaction for the insolence of his folly. Saying thus much, the undersigned commits the craven to his infamy.”

Pinkney's formal posting of John Neal after the refused challenge, defending his father's name · Public notice posted in Baltimore, 14 October 1823

• Courage
• Honour
• Reputation

“I have received your singular answer to my note. Reconsider its subject, and write more to my satisfaction before the evening, or I will post you in the worst terms that contempt can devise.”

A blunt ultimatum after Neal declined a duel over slights to Pinkney's father in the novel Randolph · Note to John Neal, October 1823, as printed in Neal's autobiography

• Anger
• Courage
• Honour