What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us! - James Russell Lowell

They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.