George Iles Quotes
No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.
Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.
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.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
