Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. – William Ralph Inge

When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims