Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian... - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

"So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right."