Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
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.