Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
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.
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
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.