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.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

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.

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

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

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