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

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

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

Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

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.

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.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.