The Wizard's Gifts: Brains, Heart, Courage

From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Wizard gives each companion a symbolic token--bran-stuffed brains, a silk heart, a draught of courage--demonstrating Baum's theme that virtues exist within and need only be acknowledged.
Chapter 16

'You don't need them. You have had them all the time.' The Wizard explains that experience, not gifts, makes wisdom--but ceremony helps belief.

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