Saying your meal was lovely, despite a slight fear it might kill you in the night. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

No human thing is of serious importance. – Plato

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! – Charles Dickens #hsp #infj

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. – John Lancaster Spalding