In science, mistakes always precede the truth

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.