Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. - James Russell Lowell

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, — emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

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.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!