Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.—Sir P. Sidney.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.—George Sewell.
Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.—Chesterfield.
Felicity.—The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall; for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain; for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are the skies.—Burton.
Fickleness.—Everything by starts, and nothing long.—Dryden.
It will be found that they are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.—Ruskin.
Fiction.—Truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.—Gray.
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.—Sir J. Mackintosh.
I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history.—Rev. John Foster.
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting: there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.—Dryden.