When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.