People whip curds to see if they cannot make cream of them.
It is much easier to put yourself in the position of a mind taken up with the most absolute error, than of one which mirrors to itself half-truths.
Wisdom lies only in truth.
When I err, every one can see it; but not when I lie.
Is not the world full enough of riddles already, without our making riddles too out of the simplest phenomena?