Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.