Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

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

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

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

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

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

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