Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

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.

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.

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.