Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
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.