A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books
