The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, ''That is all there was!'' But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.