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

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

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

Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground.

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

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

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.