Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.