“Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.”

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

“The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”