Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

- George Iles

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

- George Iles

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

- George Iles

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

- George Iles

They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A gui…

- George Iles

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

- George Iles

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

- George Iles

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

- George Iles

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

- George Iles