Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.