Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute
fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or
dwarfs.--_Hazlitt._
~Equanimity.~--A thing often lost, but seldom found.--_Mrs. Balfour._
~Error.~--If those alone who "sowed the wind did reap the whirlwind," it
would be well. But the mischief is that the blindness of bigotry, the
madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their
victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The
cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or
the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is
generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which
originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the
vale.--_Colton._
There is a brotherhood of error as close as the brotherhood of
truth.--_Argyll._
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means, one feels they are
taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may
naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.--_George Eliot._
Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our
perfection.--_Richter._
But for my part, my lord, I then thought, and am still of the same
opinion, that error, and not truth of any kind, is dangerous; that ill
conclusions can only flow from false propositions; and that, to know
whether any proposition be true or false, it is a preposterous method to
examine it by its apparent consequences.--_Burke._
Error in itself is always invisible; its nature is the absence of
light.--_Jacobi._
There is no place where weeds do not grow, and there is no heart where
errors are not to be found.--_J. S. Knowles._
Our understandings are always liable to error; nature and certainty is
very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and
pretense.--_Marcus Antoninus._