Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

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

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

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

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