“Prepare yourself for something dreadful.”

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”

“She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome; her heroism reached only to silence.”

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”