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

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

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

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

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.