“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you
“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some
“I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be
“The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth
“It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.