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.
Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.