We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.