Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.