Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
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.