Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

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

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

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

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.