fear

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.”

“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.”

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

“It is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.”

“We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.”

“The most drastic, and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.”

“Everything tempts the man who fears temptation.”

“Fear of change perplexes monarchs.”

“Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it.”