The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.