“Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!”

—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798)

“Nature, red in tooth and claw.”

—In Memoriam,

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1850)

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—
not absence of fear.”

—Pudd’nhead Wilson,

Mark Twain (1894)