Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

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

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

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.