Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. – Johann Kaspar Lavater
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. – William Lloyd Garrison