Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

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.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

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

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

Dumbness and silence are two different things.