If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite direction, and pictured Nature when she was 'young and wantoned [sic] in her prime', as moving with the lame sedateness of advanced middle age. It became necessary, therefore, as Dr. [Samuel] Haughton expresses it, 'to hurry up the phenomena'.
Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.
I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.
Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools. ]
