Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room. I should be at the end of the room facing the audience. . . . You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.