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._

Let error be an infirmity and not a crime.--_Castelar._

Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our
older heads, and become inflexible.--_Sir Thomas Browne._

~Erudition.~--'Tis of great importance to the honor of learning that men
of business should know erudition is not like a lark, which flies high,
and delights in nothing but singing; but that 't is rather like a hawk,
which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient,
and seize her prey.--_Bacon._

~Estimation.~--A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler
line,--by deeds, not years.--_Sheridan._

To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of
the effect his death would produce.--_Leves._

~Eternity.~--Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed
eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction,
wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to
stir the opposite balance