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?

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

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

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

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.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.