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

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. – Thomas Carlyle, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843 November 17th

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. – Seneca

Panicking in a sandwich shop and allowing a distressingly bizarre combination of fillings to occur. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse