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

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

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

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.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution