To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.