For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.