What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway),… - Bill Bryson

Now Stonewall Jackson is a man worth taking an interest in. Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. (long list of character deficiencies elided)...
His ineradicable fame rests almost entirely on the fact that he had a couple of small but inspiring victories when elsewhere Southern troops were being slaughtered and routed and by dint of having the best nickname any soldier has ever enjoyed.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

‎Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.