It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
James Russell LowellMishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell LowellThe pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
James Russell Lowell