Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
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.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.