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

We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.

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

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.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

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