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

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

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

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

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

Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution