It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

Measure three times before you cut once.

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.