Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.